Traditional county: Somerset · Region: South West
Explore Windmill Hill, Somerset with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Windmill Hill 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.
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| Place | Windmill Hill |
| Traditional County | Somerset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.945137 |
| Longitude | -2.979755 |
| Place Type | Village |
Windmill Hill watches over the Somerset landscape with a quiet, observant patience that defies the frantic pace of modern travel. It lies 3.1 miles west-north-west of Ilminster (from Ilminster: bearing 292°T, OS grid ST 312 166), and is situated south-west of Ashill village. The land here rises in gentle, insistent swells, catching a particular quality of light that turns the damp fields into sheets of polished pewter during the winter months. Just a short walk away, the Barrington Hill National Nature Reserve offers a sanctuary where the air feels thinner and sharper, unburdened by the heavy industry of the lowlands. Windmill Hill remains tethered to this rhythm, where the horizon is defined more by the shifting clouds than by the encroaching reach of urban expansion. Hedgerows thick with hawthorn and hazel delineate the ancient boundaries of fields that have been ploughed for centuries, holding the memory of iron blades and heavy horses. Beyond the immediate pastures, the terrain tilts toward the horizon where the distant heights of Abbey Hill break the skyline, providing a firm anchor for the wandering eye. Life in Windmill Hill follows the slow turning of the seasons, marked by the gradual deepening of shadows and the persistent, quiet growth of the hedgerows under an expansive, uncrowded sky.
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Explore Windmill Hill, 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: 50.945137, -2.979755. 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 | August 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. |