Traditional county: Somerset · Region: South West
Explore Dimmer, Somerset with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Dimmer map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
| Place | Dimmer |
| Traditional County | Somerset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.083938 |
| Longitude | -2.541332 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Dimmer, a quiet corner of Somerset, exhales a gentle, timeless air. It lies 2.0 km west-south-west of Castle Cary (from Castle Cary: bearing 252°T, OS grid ST 621 317), and is situated east-south-east of Alford village. The lanes that thread through Dimmer, often bordered by ancient hedgerows thick with hawthorn and bramble, carry the scent of damp earth and the distant promise of turned soil from the surrounding fields. Sunlight here, especially on a late afternoon, can possess a peculiar, mellow quality, filtering through the leaves of mature oak and ash to paint shifting patterns on the weathered stone of farmsteads. The land itself, a subtle tapestry of greens and browns, rolls with a quiet insistence, hinting at the deep roots of agriculture that have long shaped this place. There is a stillness here, a sense of enduring presence, as if the very air remembers the passage of generations.
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Explore Dimmer, Somerset, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.083938, -2.541332. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | June 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |