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Brean Down
Brean Down headland just to the south of Weston-super-Mare is a spectacular 97m high outcrop extending 2km into the Bristol Channel and one of the most dramatic landmarks on Somerset’s coastline with cliffs and Victorian fort built in 1865. You have some spectacular views inland to the Somerset Levels or out to sea and south Wales.
Rich wildlife habitat can be explored by a network of paths.
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Brean Down, Brean, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset , United Kingdom
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Beach: Brean Down beach View: Visit the National Trust area of Brean Down, with spectacular views over the Bristol Channel. The café is at the foot of the Down, just behind the beach. What’s on the menu?: Snack and light bites, drinks and refreshments. National Trust shop also attached.
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each: Brean beach View: Located on the sandunes, just a stone’s throw from the beach in Brean. What’s on the menu?: Snacks, light meals, cakes, ice-creams, hot and cold drinks – all freshly prepared. Fully licensed bar.
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The Reeds Arms is a Wetherspoon pub in Burnham-on-Sea and is a great place to come and visit with family and friends for some great pub food all together today.
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Beach: Clevedon beach View: Located just behind the beach at Clevedon, with a view over the old Victorian seaside resort. What’s on the menu?: Light lunches, hearty soups, Sunday lunches, daily specials, homemade cakes and pastries
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Brean Down beach is a superb stretch of beach with firm sand and views of Brean Down. At low tide a wide exposure of soft sand and mud is exposed leading to the water’s edge. Tide can rise fast near Brean Down and it is also dangerous to approach the water at low tide due to mud. Visitors should take
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Uphill Slipway beach is in the village of Uphill at the south end of the long Weston-super-Mare beach. Popular beach for kitesurfing and windsurfing as you can park on the beach and set-up safely. Beware of the high tide line as the tide can come in fast and people have been caught out before. You also have a nature reserve
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Weston-Super-Mare beach is long and sandy beach that has a very large tidal range of nearly 15 metres, the second highest rise and fall of tide in the world, which can make the sea nearly 1 mile from the promenade. At low tide, the beach is sandy at the top but can turn to mud flats further out. Weston-Super-Mare is
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Marine Lake is a small cove at the approach to Knightstone Island, offering a safe location for families with small children. The good thing here is that as the main tide goes out the causeway keeps a small beach with access to the sea. You do not just have to stay on the cove beach but tide permitting you can walk along the
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The Grand Pier at Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset has an indoor pleasure park on the pier. Having been twice destroyed by fire, most recently in 2008, the pier underwent a major refurbishment programme and reopened to the public in 2010. Visitors today can enjoy free admission and there’s something for everyone to take part in whether it’s the arcade, one
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Weston-super-Mare lifeboat station was established in 1882 and operates two inshore lifeboats. Station is generally not open to the public due to the state of Birnbeck Pier. Shop is open daily Easter to October.
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Birnbeck Pier is unusual in that it links the mainland with Birnbeck Island, a 1.2 hectares (12,000 m2) rocky island. The pier has been closed to the public since 1994. The grade II* listed pier was designed by Eugenius Birch and opened in 1867. The gothic toll house and pierhead buildings were designed by local architect Hans Price. The main
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The International Helicopter Museum features a collection of more than 80 military and civilian helicopters housed on a former RAF base in Weston super Mare in Somerset. Established in 1958 by Elfan ap Rees, the collection has been added to over the last 50 years and now contains helicopters from all over the world, some on display are even rare
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