page_title: Timsbury, Somerset
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Timsbury, Somerset / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: View of the Sleight, Timsbury in winter 2009. Looking north from Somerset Folly.
context_page_description: Timsbury is a village and civil parish in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority of the county of Somerset, 8 miles south-west of Bath, close to the Cam Brook river. The parish, which includes the hamlets of Meadgate, Radford and Wall Mead, has a population of 2,624.
context_section_description: The village is located on a plateau 500 feet (150 m) above sea level in the north east of Somerset. To the south is the northern edge of the Mendip Hills, to the north is Marksbury plain. Bordered by two water courses, to the north by the Conygre Brook, and to the south by the Cam Brook. Local landmarks to the north west include the Sleight, a small escarpment rising to 645 feet (197 m) for a distance of 0.89 miles (1.43 km) in an east westerly direction. This ridge leads the B3130 to the west of Timsbury past the Hayeswood Road Industrial Estate to connect with the A39. To the east is Tunley hill which rises to a height of 550 feet (170 m), this is the easterly route to Bath via the B3130.
  There is some remaining managed woodland in the local area, but nothing like the amount there was in the past when the village was given its name of Timsbyre (wooded hillside). Dutch elm disease and the use of wood for building construction, fuel and furniture has denuded much of the local area of its trees.
caption: The Sleight, Timsbury winter of 2009 looking north from Somerset Folly.
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