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Washford
Sign in to saveWashford is a village on the Washford River in the civil parish of Old Cleeve, Somerset, England. The village is next to Cleeve Abbey, one of the best-preserved medieval monasteries in England. It centred in a valley close to the Bristol Channel on the A39 road east of the resort town of Minehead and southwest of the port of Watchet.
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Place details
- Locality
- Washford
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 601
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Old Cleeve
- Image
- CleeveAbbeyDormitoryC.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01984
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- Washford
- OS grid reference
- ST045415
- P8168
- Wipert von Blücher
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Washford is a village on the Washford River in the civil parish of Old Cleeve, Somerset, England. The village is next to Cleeve Abbey, one of the best-preserved medieval monasteries in England. It centred in a valley close to the Bristol Channel on the A39 road east of the resort town of Minehead and southwest of the port of Watchet.
The village lies on the route of the Somerset Way and Celtic Way Exmoor Option.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Washford” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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