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South Somerset shown within Somerset and England South Somerset is a local government district in the English county of Somerset. The South Somerset district occupies an area of 370 square miles (958 km 2), stretching from its borders with Devon and Dorset to the edge of the Somerset Levels. The district has a population of about 158,000, and has Yeovil as its administrative centre. In the ...
The Holnicote Estate (/ ˈ h ʌ n ɪ ˌ k ʌ t /) is a property consisting of 5,026 hectares (12,420 acres) of Exmoor National Park situated in West Somerset. The property was donated to the National Trust in 1944 by Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, 15th Baronet ; it had been in the Acland family since 1745. [ 71 ]
The districts of Somerset are West Somerset, South Somerset, Taunton Deane, Mendip and Sedgemoor. North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset historically came under Somerset County Council. In 1974 they became part of county of Avon , and in 1996 they became administratively independent when Avon was broken up into unitary authorities.
The district has a population of about 158,000, [86] and has Yeovil as its administrative centre. The Church of St John the Evangelist, Milborne Port is of late Anglo-Saxon date, and parts may well span the Norman conquest. [87] There are 94 Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset.
Entrance front c. 1868. Brympton d'Evercy (alternatively Brympton House) is a Grade I listed manor house near Yeovil in the county of Somerset, England. [1] The house has been called the most beautiful of its kind in England; in 1927, Christopher Hussey, near the start of a 50-year career as an architectural authority, termed it "the one which created the greatest impression and summarises so ...
Newton Surmaville is a 15,129-square-foot (1,405.5 m 2) stately home with gardens and a park south of Yeovil, Somerset in the district of South Somerset, in England. It lies just outside the town in the parish of Barwick .
Yeovil (/ ˈ j oʊ v ɪ l /) [2] is a town and civil parish in Somerset, England.The population of Yeovil at the last census (2021) was 49,698. It is close to Somerset's southern border with Dorset, 126 miles (203 km) west of London, 41.8 miles (67.3 km) south of Bristol, 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Sherborne and 27.6 miles (44.4 km) east of Taunton.
Tintinhull Garden, located in Tintinhull, near Yeovil in the English county of Somerset, is a small (less than an acre) [3] 20th century garden surrounding a 17th-century Grade I listed house. The property is in the ownership of the National Trust. It is visited by around 25,000 people per year. [4]