Tithe Barn

#2341 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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The Tithe Barn at Cumhill Farm in Pilton, Somerset, England, was built in the 14th century as a tithe barn to hold produce for Glastonbury Abbey. It is a Grade I listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument. ()

Coordinates: 51°9'49"N, 2°35'21"W

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Cumhill HillShepton Mallet BA4 4BG EnglandUnited Kingdom

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Tithe Barn – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Kilver Court, Bishop's Palace, Wells Town Hall, Wells St Andrew.

3 miNE
Garden, Park, Cafe
Kilver Court, Shepton Mallet
76 min walk • Kilver Court is an historic house and gardens in Shepton Mallet in the English county of Somerset. The River Sheppey powered textile mills and it later became a factory, the headquarters of the Showerings brewing business, and then the headquarters of a leather-goods manufacturer, Mulberry. It is now used as a shopping centre.
3.9 miNW
Historical place, Museum, Sacred and religious sites
Bishop's Palace, Wells
100 min walk • The Bishop's Palace and accompanying Bishops House at Wells in the English county of Somerset, is adjacent to Wells Cathedral and has been the home of the Bishops of the Diocese of Bath and Wells for 800 years. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.
4 miNW
City hall
Wells Town Hall, Wells
101 min walk • Wells Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Wells, Somerset, England. The building, which is the headquarters of Wells City Council, is a Grade II listed building.
4 miNW
Church
Wells St Andrew, Wells
101 min walk • Wells St Andrew, or St Andrew Liberty, or derivations thereof, was a liberty, ecclesiastical parish, and later a civil parish, containing Wells Cathedral and surrounding land, in Somerset, England.
2.7 miNE
Archaeological site
Scheduled monuments in Mendip
70 min walk • Mendip is a local government district of Somerset in England. The Mendip district covers a largely rural area of 285 square miles ranging from the Mendip Hills through on to the Somerset Levels. It has a population of approximately 110,000.
2.7 miNE
Tours, Prison
HM Prison Shepton Mallet, Shepton Mallet
70 min walk • HMP Shepton Mallet, sometimes known as Cornhill, is a former prison located in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England. When it closed in 2013, it was the United Kingdom's oldest operating prison, and had been since the closure of HMP Lancaster Castle in 2011. Before closure Shepton Mallet was a category C lifer prison holding 189 prisoners.
~600 ftN
Church
Church of St John the Baptist
3 min walk • The Church of St John the Baptist in Pilton, Somerset, England, dates from the 11th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The present Norman and Medieval structure, may stand on the site of an earlier wattle and daub church built by the early missionaries.
2.5 miNE
Church
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Shepton Mallet
65 min walk • The Church of St Peter and St Paul in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
3.5 miSE
Church
Church of St Mary Magdalene
90 min walk • The Church of St Mary Magdalene is the Church of England parish church for the village of Ditcheat, Somerset, England. There has been a church on the site since 824, and the present building owes much of its grandeur to the Abbots of Glastonbury. Historic England have designated it a Grade I listed building.
2.3 miN
Church
Church of St Mary the Virgin
60 min walk • The Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin in Croscombe, Somerset, England, is primarily from the 15th and 16th centuries with 19th-century restoration. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
3.3 miN
Forts and castles
King's Castle
85 min walk • King's Castle is an Iron Age enclosed hilltop settlement at the south-western edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset, England.