Monument to mining

Radstock is in North East Somerset, just 25 minutes drive to the south of Bath.

Map locator - Radstock

Radstock was formerly at the heart of the Somerset Coal Field, but all the pits closed quite a time ago and it's now a commuter town for Bath; heavy mineral extraction remains in the form of quarries just to the south of Radstock, from where much of the stone is taken away by train via Frome - a town that's just a few files away.

Radstock itself used to have two railway lines running through the heart of it - a branch of the Great Western, and the Somerset and Dorset main line on its way from Bath to Bournemouth, with express trains such as the Pines Express coming from as far afield as Manchester.


Somerset and Dorset - a cycle track now in Radstock

See also Farleigh Hungerford, Bradford on Avon and Trowbridge.

Pages nearby ...	Kilmersdon 2.4 kms SE	Mells 7 kms SE
Midford 9 kms NE	Prior Park 11 kms NE	Frome 11 kms SE
Farleigh Hungerford 12 kms E	East Somerset Railway 12 kms S	Limpley Stoke 12 kms NE
Iford 12 kms NE	Bath 12 kms NE	Dundas 13 kms NE
Bradford on avon 15 kms NE	Bathampton 15 kms NE	Lansdown 16 kms N

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