Places To Go By Bus - Mendip
Are you looking for a new place to travel to by bus? We have listed some places in visit in and from Somerset.
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then we have the city of Wells.. where you could stroll the narrow streets, visit the thriving market on Saturdays, or walk around the amazing cathedral, or Bishops palace!
Mendip has some excellent bus services into the World Heritage City of Bath and Bristol.
Good Journey have done a handy guide on wha to do and see in Bath and Bristol.
Bath guide - https://www.goodjourney.org.uk/bath/
Bristol guide - https://www.goodjourney.org.uk/adventures-around-bristol/
Shepton Mallet
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Shepton Mallet Prison
HMP Shepton Mallet, sometimes known as Cornhill, is a former prison located in Shepton Mallet, Somerset. When it closed in 2013, it was the United Kingdom's oldest operating prison.
Address: Frithfield Lane, Shepton Mallet, BA4 5LU
Contact: 01749 681862
Nearest bus stop: Beech House, Shepton Mallet
Bus service: South West Coaches bus service 1
Kilver Court And Gardens, Shepton Mallet
Kilver Court is a historic house and gardens in Shepton Mallet. The River Sheppey powered textile mills and it later became a factory, the headquarters of the Showerings brewing business (later part of Allied Domecq), and then the headquarters of a leather-goods manufacturer, Mulberry. It is now used as a designer outlet centre and has historic landscaped gardens you can visit.
Address: Kilver Court, Kilver Street, Shepton Mallet, BA4 5NF
Contact: 01749 705 279
Nearest bus stop: Charlton Inn, Shepton Mallet
Bus service: South West Coaches bus service 1
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Dobbies Garden Centre, Shepton Mallet
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Large garden centre with extensive range of plants, garden equipment, outdoor living, home range, pet range, and a restaurant for tea or lunch.
Address: Fosseway Industrial Estate, Mendip Ave, Shepton Mallet BA4 4PE
Contact: 01749 333490 / Shepton.Manager@dobbies.com
Nearest bus stop: Amulet Way, Shepton Mallet
Bus service: South West Coaches bus service 1
Hullabaloo Soft Play, Shepton Mallet
Address: The Blue Tower, Townsend Road, Shepton Mallet, BA4 5SB
Contact: 01749 344433
Nearest bus stop: Cenotaph, Shepton Mallet
Bus service: South West Coaches bus service 1
Street
Clark’s village, Street
Clarks Village is an outlet shopping village in Street, having over 90 Designer & High Street Brands. It also has number of coffee shops, restaurants and fast food chains.
Address: 12 Clarks Village, Street, BA16 0BB
Contact: 01458840064 / hello@clarksvillage.co.uk
Nearest bus stop: Crispin Hall / The Library, Street
Bus service: First Bus - Buses of Somerset 77
Glastonbury
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Prominent hill overlooking the Isle of Avalon, Glastonbury and Somerset.
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Address: Glastonbury Tor near Ashewell Lane, Glastonbury
Contact: 01278751874 / glastonburytor@nationaltrust.org.uk
Nearest bus stop: Tmurco Garage, Glastonbury
Bus service: First Bus - Buses of Somerset 77
Glastonbury Abbey Ruins
Glastonbury Abbey was a monastery in Glastonbury, Somerset. Its ruins, a grade I listed building and scheduled ancient monument, are open as a visitor attraction. The abbey was founded in the 8th century and enlarged in the 10th. It was destroyed by a major fire in 1184, but subsequently rebuilt and by the 14th century was one of the richest and most powerful monasteries in England. The abbey controlled large tracts of the surrounding land and was instrumental in major drainage projects on the Somerset Levels. The abbey was suppressed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII of England. The last abbot, Richard Whiting (Whyting), was hanged, drawn and quartered as a traitor on Glastonbury Tor in 1539.
From at least the 12th century the Glastonbury area has been associated with the legend of King Arthur, a connection promoted by medieval monks who asserted that Glastonbury was Avalon. Christian legends have claimed that the abbey was founded by Joseph of Arimathea in the 1st century.
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Address: Magdalene Street, Glastonbury BA6 9EL
Contact: 01458 832267
Nearest bus stop: Town Hall, Glastonbury
Bus service: First Bus - Buses of Somerset 77
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Challice Wells are surrounded by beautiful gardens and orchards it is a living sanctuary in which the visitor can experience the quiet healing of this sacred place. For over two thousand years this has been a place where people have gathered to drink the waters and find solace, peace and inspiration.
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Address: Chalice Well Trust, 85-89 Chilkwell St, Glastonbury BA6 8DD
Contact: 01458 831154 / info@chalicewell.org.uk
Nearest bus stop: Tmurco Garage, Glastonbury
Bus service: First Bus - Buses of Somerset 77
Margaret’s Chapel Almshouses, Glastonbury
St Margaret’s Chapel was built by the Abbey as a place of prayer attached to the existing hospital for sick men. The building dates from 1444 and is Grade II* listed, and a Scheduled ancient monument. The chapel has features dating to the 13th and 15th centuries although the lancet window at the East end may be earlier. The chapel is open daily for quiet prayer and contemplation
Almshouse and former hospital - The first hospital in Glastonbury was built by the monks of the Abbey on the site of St John’s Church on the High Street but this soon became too small and so in about 1250 they built a hospital on this site, just inside the chaingate entrance to the Abbey. The chaingate was used to control the number of pilgrims allowed to access the Abbey and was opened at sunrise and closed at sunset.
Address: Magdalene St, Glastonbury BA6 9EJ
Contact: info@stmargaretschapel.org.uk
Nearest bus stop: Tmurco Garage, Glastonbury
Bus service: First Bus - Buses of Somerset 77
Glastonbury's Gem Shops
Glastonbury is famed for it's range of Gem shops. Most of these can be found on High Street or Magdalene Street, Glastonbury.
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Nearest bus stop: Town Hall, Glastonbury
Bus service: First Bus - Buses of Somerset 77
Sedgemoor Distict
Draycott for the strawberry farms and The Cider Barn
Taunton
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South West Taunton and District
An ancient castle and comfortable country home with dramatic vistas and subtropical gardens
28 - Taunton - Minehead - bus service operated by Buses of Somerset, alight Dunster Steep, ½ mile. Exmoor Coaster West-bound: Doniford- Watchet- Dunster- Minhead- Porlock- Lynmouth. East-bound: Lynmouth- Porlock- Minehead- Dunster- Watchet- Doniford. 198 - Dulverton - Minehead - bus service operated by Atwest , alight Dunster High Street Newagents (S-bound) or Dunster The Foresters Inn (W-bound). 678 - Dulverton - Minehead - bus service operated by Exmoor Community Bus Association, alight Dunster High Street Newagents (S-bound) or Dunster The Foresters Inn (W-bound).
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South somerset
south Cadbury, which has Cadbury castle
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