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Visit Somerset Somerset Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty Beautiful coastline Great Adventure National Park Superb Food and Drink Two Historic Cities World Heritage Site Wetlands and Wildlife Be in Somerset welcomed The River Parrett at Langport A land full of character, Our promise? You will leave most accessible, with our villages past our tapestry of beauty, nature and here refreshed, taking border only a two hour small fields and hedgerows whilst admiring fun that boasts world- memories with you to last ride from much of the our wealth of wildlife. Extra moments of all class food and drink forever. You will meet south east or midlands. your senses savouring Somerset. along with the best friendly people, enjoy unique You can be here quicker, in hospitality. This is activities, experience superb for longer, more time to This is your time for adventure. Somerset and whatever scenery and taste our famous experience our World you want from a holiday, agricultural produce. You Heritage site, internationally you will find it here, from will want to return to this important wetlands, long sandy beaches, undiscovered land. Jurassic coast, three areas atmospheric harbours, of Outstanding Natural historic cities, renowned Somerset gives you the Beauty and National Park. countryside and even whole flavour of the south More precious minutes subterranean caves. west whilst being the meandering through quaint Follow Visit Somerset, then large social media icons underneath, plus a desktop/mobile screen for website and www.visitsomerset.co.uk Cider drinking at Wassail Wells Cathedral www.visitsomerset.co.uk Year round Dog Beaches Berrow North and South Bossington Brean Burnham (north of Maddock’s Slade) Blue Anchor Bay Greenaleigh (west of Minehead) Kilve Porlock Weir Sand Bay (Weston-super-Mare) Ladye Bay (Clevedon) Somerset’s coast Middle Hope Burnham-on-Sea inspiring St Audries Bay Uphill (Weston-super-Mare) Somerset’s coast is full rock pavements to sand and then it has more in of surprises. Perhaps dunes and from wooded the form of the rare plants Watchet Harbour Beach the biggest is that it is cliffs to mudflats. There and birds that thrive in this actually the shore of a are geological and wildlife environment. For more options on beaches and where river, Britain’s longest, wonders for the scientifically dogs are welcome across Somerset see the Severn. That is why minded, seaside resorts for We will start our exploration www.visitsomerset.co.uk/dogs some in Somerset call those seeking entertainment, of the Somerset coast in Porlock Weir the Bristol Channel, on fishing and sailing for the Exmoor where it boasts the which we look out when sports fans, coasteering oldest rocks and highest we visit our coast, ‘the for the adventurous and cliffs. These can be found Severn Sea’. As a sea and long-distance trails for the on the border with Devon at an estuary, it is a mix of energetic. This coast has Glenthorne, a Site of Special salty and fresh water something for everyone, even Scientific interest because and a vital feeding place the four-legged members of of its Devonian Sandstone for huge numbers of fish the family as it has numerous cliffs. The pebble beach below and wildfowl. dog-friendly beaches. It has was part of a country estate all you’d expect from a sea- and you can still see a ruined The variety of coastal side: lighthouses, rock pools, boathouse, a trout pool and landscape in Somerset is fossils, ice cream parlours, lime kilns. It is reached by a Bossington Brean truly remarkable, from piers and even a ship-wreck steep wooded, fern-lined walk. www.visitsomerset.co.uk Porlock Weir Blenheim Gardens Minehead Minehead From Porlock Weir to Minehead and Dunster West Somerset Railway Dunster Castle Dunster The spectacular been re-introduced and the entertainment. They have Minehead is also the start of drive across the moor once again fine Porlock been joined by new cafes the superb West Somerset eastwards, takes oysters are appearing on West and eating places as well Railway – the longest heritage you down one of the restaurant menus. Somerset as activity centres for more railway in England – with its steepest hills on a main energetic ways of enjoying historic steam locomotives, ten road in England and The seaside town of near the coast the coast such as kayaking beautifully kept stations and inland to the picturesque Minehead is dominated by the and paddle boarding 20 miles of track. For the early Coleridge Cottage village of Porlock with magnificent, wooded North miles, it chugs along the coast its 13th century church. Hill from the summit of which Dunster Castle A walk along the sea front and the first stop is Dunster A mile to the west down you can look back towards the towards North Hill takes whose fairytale castle looks Dunkery Beacon a road lined with pretty sea cliffs of Exmoor. It was a you to the harbour and past down from the hilltop. Dunster thatched cottages is popular holiday resort even Selworthy a sculpted pair of hands has a fascinating beach with the Porlock Weir. There before the Victorians made the holding a map as a graphic River Avill cascading onto the Westermill Farm is a small harbour, idea fashionable because of its indication that this is the pebbles and sand. You can shingle beach, salt superb setting and the reputed West Somerset Railway starting point for the UK’s walk from the station to the marsh and views east healing power of sea air. longest, long distance country beach or in the opposite to Bossington Beach walk, the South West Coast direction along and Hurlstone Point. Many of the elements that Path which stretches all the the river to the Porlock had a reputation made up a classic British way round the tip of England village, one of for the quality of its seaside holiday are still here: to Poole in Dorset. Or you can the largest and oysters in the mid 19th the beach for sandcastles and carry on along the Somerset most intact century and in the last rock pooling; the gardens and Coast as far as Brean Down medieval villages five years the trade has bandstand for relaxation and on the England Coast Path. in England. www.visitsomerset.co.uk Blue Anchor Watchet Harbour villages inland as sea levels rise. Managed by The Wildfowl and Blue bay Wetland Trust (WWT), Steart anchor Marshes have the added benefit View of Minehead from St Audries of providing rare saltmarsh habitat and attracting wildlife. Since its completion, avocets have bred on the reserve and it has been visited by glossy ibis, spoonbill and ringed plover. Water voles and otters JMW Turner painted is crammed with quaint houses are resident as are the cattle Blue Anchor Bay and shops; two museums, a and sheep that graze there. A which is noted for Holy Well and a sculpture of network of paths lead you round the alabaster and Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner. the reserve, to the River Parrett fossils found in its and Combwich village. cliffs. Its sweeping The cliffs between Blue Anchor sandy bay is framed and Hinkley Point are from the The character of the coast by Minehead’s Triassic and Jurassic periods changes completely around the North Hill at one and the striking features of mouth of the Parrett with the end and dramatic this stretch are the ‘pavements’ rocky cliffs and shingle giving blue lias cliffs the spreading out from the base way to sand flats that run all other. It is popular of the cliffs across the beach. the way to the promontory that with anglers, dog The best places to see them is Brean Down. Sand naturally walkers and are St Audries where there is attracts holiday makers photographers a magical waterfall plunging especially those keen to wield a for its sunsets. towards them, Lilstock and bucket and spade which is one Kilve which is well-known for its of the reasons for the popularity At low tide you can splendid ammonite fossils. of the resorts and parks here. walk to neighbouring The three Bs - Burnham, Berrow Watchet, also painted One of the country’s largest new and Brean - are famed for their by Turner. An ancient wetland reserves lies to the east miles of sand, ideal for walking, Port, that once had its of Hinkley Point, created by the running, riding, angling, kite- own mint, the town Environment Agency to defend flying and picnicking. Kilve www.visitsomerset.co.uk Be wowed by Weston Brean Leisure Park Things to do near the coast Brean Down National Trust Brean Leisure Park Weston-super-Mare Channel Adventure Minehead The Victorian love affair not one but two piers. according to the poet John a modern marina complemented by glorious Cleeve Abbey Washford with the seaside turned Birnbeck sadly is closed Betjeman, Clevedon has the planting. From the cliffs of Exmoor to the what had been a small now but the magnificent most beautiful in Britain. More outskirts of Bristol, we’ve encountered holiday Clevedon Court National Trust fishing village, Weston, Grand Pier is deservedly recent fans were the members resorts and secluded coves, rocky shores and Clevedon Hall into a thriving resort one of the UK’s leading of the band, One Direction, who sand dunes. All are accessible now along the especially after the visitor attractions. made a video there. Formed England Coast Path which will one day track Court Farm Country Park arrival of the railway. from discarded wrought iron round the whole of the UK. Weston-super-Mare Museum During the construction North of Weston is another lines from Brunel’s railway, of the railway, Isambard natural vantage point, Sand the 48 foot high pier has been Kingdom Brunel, who Point, owned by the National lovingly restored as centrepiece was supervising it, lived Trust ad overlooking the to Clevedon’s elegant Victorian Somerset Piers in Weston.
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