Creech St Michael is a village and civil parish in Somerset, three miles east of Taunton.

[1] The name derives from the Celtic crug, "hill"(although local residents think it means "creek", because the area is relatively flat), and the parish church of St. Michael, which dates from the 13th century.

[5] The Bridgwater & Taunton Canal provides a picturesque route through the village for pleasure boats, and the towpath is open to pedestrians and cyclists.

including the skeleton of a five-arched bridge across the River Tone, and an embankment curving south, parallel to the abandoned canal.

[6] It is also part of the Taunton and Wellington county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.