Kingsdon is a Town in the county of Somerset.

Retail in Kingsdon

There are great places to visit near Kingsdon including some great cities, historic buildings, towns, ancient sites, hills, ruins, historic monuments, lakes, villages, airports, beaches, islands, rivers and streams, hiking areas and caves.

There are a number of cities near Kingsdon including Bath, and Wells.

Beckford's Tower, Tropicana, Grand Pier (Weston-super-Mare), and Wells Cathedral are great places to visit near Kingsdon if you like historic buildings.

Glastonbury, Langport, Bridgwater, and Weston-super-Mare are great places to visit near Kingsdon if you like towns.

Don't miss Glastonbury Tor, and Chalice Well's ancient sites if visiting the area around Kingsdon.

There are a number of hills near to Kingsdon including Glastonbury Tor.

Don't miss Glastonbury Abbey's ruins if visiting the area around Kingsdon.

There are a several good historic monuments in the Kingsdon area like Chalice Well, and Cheddar Market Cross.

There are a several good lakes in the Kingsdon area like Cellophane Ponds, and Marine Lake - Weston-super-mare.

Withycombe, Uphill, Cheddar, and Wookey Hole are some of Kingsdon best villages to visit near Kingsdon.

Places near Kingsdon feature a number of interesting airports including Bristol Airport.

Beaches to visit near Kingsdon include Weston-super-Mare Beach.

There are a several good islands in the area around Kingsdon like Knightstone Island.

River Axe is one of Kingsdon's best, nearby rivers and streams to visit in Kingsdon.

Cheddar Gorge is one of Kingsdon's best, nearby hiking areas to visit in Kingsdon.

Kingsdon has some unmissable caves nearby like Cheddar Gorge, and Wookey Hole Caves.

Kingsdon History

There are some historic monuments around Kingsdon:

• Medieval farmstead, E of Butleigh Wood
• The easternmost of three duck decoys on Walton Moor
• Hamdon Hill camp
• Medieval settlement 190m south west of Perry's Bridge
• Site of a Cluniac priory immediately east of Abbey Farm
• Linear earthwork in Butleigh Wood
• Roman villa at Lufton
• Compton Dundon hillfort with Dundon Beacon, east of Dundon
• Deserted medieval settlement and associated fields, Lytes Cary
• Roman villa NW of Two Acre Plantation
• Melbury Roman villa
• Bineham City deserted village
• Pill Bridge
• Ilchester Roman town
• Somerton Market Cross
• Northover House, late Roman cemetery
• Roman settlement remains immediately south of Westland Road
• Later Iron Age enclosure, Ilchester Mead
• Central of three duck decoys on Walton Moor, south of Lord Bath's Drove
• Montacute Castle: a motte and bailey castle on St Michael's Hill.
• Romano-British settlement immediately south west of Camel Hill Farm
• Medieval secular college at Parsonage Farm
• Roman villa N of Stowey Hill
• Medieval settlement remains 100m and 250m north of Downhead Manor Farm
• Bowl barrow known as `Wimble Toot'
• Moated site at Hinton Farm
• West Mudford medieval settlement, 500m south west of West Mudford Farm
• Roman temporary camp at East Farm
• Duck decoy 700m WNW of Rookery Farm