West Camel is a village and civil parish in south Somerset, England, about 7 miles (11.3 km) north of the town of Yeovil.

It derives from the Brittonic words found today in modern Welsh as cant ("enclosure, circle, rim") and moel ("bare").

[4] Camel is one of many sites in England identified as a possible setting of The Strife of Camlann, related as the final battle of King Arthur.

[7] The earliest written reference to West Camel dates from 995 CE, in the form of a grant of the village by Aethelred II to the monks of Muchelney Abbey.

The Leland Trail begins at King Alfred's Tower on the Wiltshire/Somerset border and ends at Ham Hill Country Park.

The village falls within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972.

[10] The district council controls local planning and building, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism.