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Washford

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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.

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Locality
Washford
Region
England
Country
United Kingdom
Population
601
Timezone
Europe/London

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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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