English Heritage sites near Lands Common to Axminster and Kilmington C.P.s Parish

Blackbury Camp

BLACKBURY CAMP

7 miles from Lands Common to Axminster and Kilmington C.P.s Parish

An Iron Age hillfort in Devon with impressive ramparts, now surrounded by woodland.

Muchelney Abbey

MUCHELNEY ABBEY

19 miles from Lands Common to Axminster and Kilmington C.P.s Parish

Once a wealthy Benedictine house, Muchelney’s main buildings were demolished by Henry VIII in 1538. See the richly decorated cloister walk and thatched monks’ lavatory – the only one in Britain.

Kingston Russell Stone Circle

KINGSTON RUSSELL STONE CIRCLE

19 miles from Lands Common to Axminster and Kilmington C.P.s Parish

A late Neolithic or early Bronze Age circle of 18 fallen stones, on a hilltop overlooking Abbotsbury and the sea.

Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrows

WINTERBOURNE POOR LOT BARROWS

20 miles from Lands Common to Axminster and Kilmington C.P.s Parish

A 'cemetery' of 44 Bronze Age burial mounds of varying types and sizes, straddling the A35 main road.

Abbotsbury, St Catherine's Chapel

ABBOTSBURY, ST CATHERINE'S CHAPEL

20 miles from Lands Common to Axminster and Kilmington C.P.s Parish

Set high on a hilltop overlooking Abbotsbury Abbey, this sturdily buttressed and barrel-vaulted 14th-century chapel was built by monks as a place of pilgrimage and retreat.

Abbotsbury Abbey Remains

ABBOTSBURY ABBEY REMAINS

20 miles from Lands Common to Axminster and Kilmington C.P.s Parish

Part of a monastic building, perhaps the abbot’s lodging, of Benedictine Abbotsbury Abbey, Henry VIII ordered its destruction during the Dissolution in 1538. St Catherine's Chapel is nearby.


No churches found in Lands Common to Axminster and Kilmington C.P.s Parish


No churches found in Lands Common to Axminster and Kilmington C.P.s Parish