Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust

#1634 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Museum, Specialty museum

Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust

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The Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust is a UK-registered charity which owns the museum and railway at Midsomer Norton railway station. Commercial activities such as catering, retail services and the operation of public trains over the original trackbed come under the control of the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway Company Ltd. a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trust. It is separate to and should not be confused with the Somerset and Dorset Railway Trust, which is located at the West Somerset Railway's Washford railway station. ()

Coordinates: 51°16'51"N, 2°28'58"W

Location

34 Silver StreetMidsomer Norton BA3 2EY EnglandUnited Kingdom

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+44 1761 411221

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Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Midsomer Norton, Fairy Cave Quarry, Radstock Museum, Church of St John the Baptist.

0.4 miN
Town, Hotel, Church
Midsomer Norton
11 min walk • Midsomer Norton is a town near the Mendip Hills in Bath and North East Somerset, England, 10 miles south-west of Bath, 10 miles north-east of Wells, 10 miles north-west of Frome, 12 miles west of Trowbridge and 16 miles south-east of Bristol.
3.7 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Fairy Cave Quarry
95 min walk • Fairy Cave Quarry is between Stoke St Michael and Oakhill in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. Quarrying was first started on the site in the early 1920s.
1.7 miNE
Museum, History museum, Town
Radstock Museum
45 min walk • Radstock Museum in Radstock, Somerset, England has a range of exhibits which offer an insight into North Somerset life since the nineteenth century.
~1880 ftN
Church
Church of St John the Baptist
10 min walk • The Anglican Church of St John the Baptist in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, England, is a Grade II* listed building. St. John's is part of the Diocese of Bath and Wells.
3.6 miSW
Church
Church of St James
94 min walk • The Church of St James in Ashwick, Somerset, England, is a church dating from 1881. It is a Grade I listed building, adjacent to Ashwick Court. It also houses a tower that dates back from 1450.
3.1 miN
Church
St. Mary's
79 min walk • The Anglican Church of St Mary The Virgin in Timsbury within the English county of Somerset is a Grade II* listed building. An old church on the site had fallen into disrepair by the 1820s. The church was rebuilt in 1826–32 and the east end added in 1852 by Sir George Gilbert Scott.
3.2 miE
Park
Ammerdown House
82 min walk • Ammerdown House in Kilmersdon, Somerset, England, was built in 1788. It has been designated as Grade I listed building. It was built as a country house with stables and an adjacent formal garden within landscaped parkland in emparked landscape by James Wyatt for Thomas Samuel Jolliffe.
1.8 miS
Monastery
Downside Abbey
47 min walk • Downside Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in England and the senior community of the English Benedictine Congregation. Until 2019, the community had close links with Downside School, for the education of children aged eleven to eighteen.
4.1 miS
Church
Church of St Michael
106 min walk • The Anglican Church of St Michael in Stoke St Michael, Somerset, England was built around 1400. It is a Grade II* listed building.
2.1 miE
Church
Church of St Peter and St Paul
54 min walk • The Anglican Church of St Peter and St Paul in Kilmersdon, Somerset, England, dates back to the Norman period, though much of the current structure was built during the 15th and 16th centuries and restored in the Victorian era. It is a Grade I listed building.
4.3 miN
Church
All Saints Farmborough
110 min walk • The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church in Farmborough, Somerset, England. It was principally built in the 15th century and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building.