Wells
Wells is the smallest city in England, with a population of around 10,000. It is in Somerset in the south-west of the country. The city is dominated by the magnificent Gothic cathedral and is famous for its remarkably intact ecclesiastical quarter.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Notable Places in the Area
Wells Cathedral
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wells Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Wells, Somerset, England, dedicated to St Andrew the Apostle.
Bishop's Palace, Wells
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The Bishop's Palace is the residence of the bishop of Bath and Wells in Wells, Somerset, England.
Chain Gate
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The Chain Gate in Wells, Somerset, England, is an entrance gateway adjacent to the north side of Wells Cathedral, controlling access from St Andrew Street to the Cathedral Green within the Liberty of St Andrew.
Localities in the Area
Dinder
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Dinder is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of St Cuthbert Out, in the Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset.
Wookey Hole
Photo: Adrian and Janet Quantock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wookey Hole is a village in Somerset, England. It is the location of the Wookey Hole show caves.
Horrington
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Horrington is a collection of three small villages in the parish of St Cuthbert Out 1 mile or 2 miles east of Wells, Somerset, England.
Wells
- Type: City with 11,000 residents
- Description: cathedral city in Somerset, England
- Categories: civil parish, civil parish with city status, market town and locality
- Location: Mendip District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.2095° or 51° 12' 34" northLongitude
-2.6451° or 2° 38' 42" westPopulation
11,000Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)United Nations Location Code
GB WLSOpen Location Code
9C3V6953+QXOpenStreetMap ID
node 304611OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2634569Wikidata ID
Q212283Wells Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Wells
- Arabic: مدينة ولز
- Arabic: ولز
- Armenian: Ուելս
- Asturian: Wells
- Basque: Wells
- Bengali: ওয়েলস
- Catalan: Wells
- Cebuano: Wells
- Chinese: Wells
- Chinese: 韋爾斯
- Chinese: 韦尔斯
- Czech: Wells
- Danish: Wells
- Dimli (individual language): Wells
- Dutch: Wells
- English: Wells, Somerset
- Esperanto: Wells
- Finnish: Wells
- French: Wells
- German: Wells
- Greek: Ουέλς
- Gujarati: વેલ્સ
- Hebrew: וולס
- Hindi: वैल्स
- Hungarian: Wells
- Icelandic: Wells
- Indonesian: Wells
- Irish: Wells
- Italian: Wells
- Japanese: ウェルズ
- Kannada: ವೆಲ್ಸ್
- Korean: 웰스
- Kurdish: Wells
- Latin: Wellae
- Latin: Wells
- Latvian: Vellsa
- Lithuanian: Velsas
- Malay: Wells
- Marathi: वेल्स
- Mazanderani: ولز، انگلستان
- Min Nan Chinese: Wells (Somerset)
- Northern Frisian: Wells, Somerset
- Norwegian: Wells
- Norwegian Bokmål: Wells
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Wells
- Persian: ولز، انگلستان
- Polish: Wells
- Portuguese: Wells
- Romanian: Wells
- Russian: Уэллс
- Russian: Уэлс
- Scots: Wells, Somerset
- Scots: Wells
- Serbian: Велс
- Serbo-Croatian: Wells
- Sinhala: වෙල්ස්
- Slovenian: Wells, Somerset
- Spanish: Wells
- Swedish: Wells, Somerset
- Swedish: Wells
- Tagalog: Wells
- Tamil: வெல்ஸ்
- Telugu: వెల్స్
- Thai: เวลส์
- Turkish: Wells
- Ukrainian: Велз
- Ukrainian: Веллс
- Ukrainian: Велльс
- Ukrainian: Уеллс
- Ukrainian: Уелльс
- Ukrainian: Уелс
- Urdu: ویلز
- Urdu: ویلز، سومرسیٹ
- Vietnamese: Wells
- Volapük: Wells
- Waray (Philippines): Wells
- Welsh: Wells
- Western Frisian: Wells
- Western Panjabi: ولز
- Wells, Sommerset
Other Places Named Wells
In the Area
- DulcoteNeighbourhood
- HaybridgeVillage
- WoodfordHamlet
- Lower MiltonHamlet
- BurcottHamlet
- Coxley WickHamlet
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Wells. Photo: matthewhartley369, CC BY-SA 2.0.