Watchet is a harbour town, civil parish and electoral ward in the county of Somerset, England, with a population in 2011 of 3,785. It is situated 15 miles...
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West Somerset Railway (section Minehead to Watchet)
trains. It originally opened in 1862 between Taunton and Watchet. In 1874 it was extended from Watchet to Minehead by the Minehead Railway. Although just a...
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Watchet Boat Museum is a small museum in Watchet, Somerset, England. It is housed in the 1862, Victorian, former railway goods shed of Watchet railway...
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December 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2016. "Coleridge and Watchet". watchetmuseum.co.uk. Watchet Museum. Retrieved 12 December 2016. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor...
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Watchet railway station is a station on the West Somerset Railway, a heritage railway in Somerset, England. It is situated in the small harbour town of...
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The Church of St Decuman in Watchet, Somerset, England has a 13th-century chancel with the rest of the church being from the 15th century. It has been...
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The Ancient Mariner statue at Watchet, Somerset, England...
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Periton & Woodcombe; Porlock & District; Quantock Vale; South Quantock; Watchet & Williton; Wiveliscombe & District. It will comprise the following areas:...
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late 19th century; this was taken by the West Somerset Mineral Railway to Watchet Harbour for shipment to the furnaces at Ebbw Vale. Many Somerset soldiers...
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2022, the Tropiquaria Zoo in Watchet, Somerset was used as a base for filming within a 5 mi (8.0 km) radius of the Watchet wildlife park and aquarium....
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West Somerset Mineral Railway (section Watchet Harbour)
purpose was to carry iron ore northwards from mines on the Brendon Hills to Watchet harbour on the Bristol Channel. From there the ore was shipped northwards...
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materials and techniques. In 2013, the cabin was moved to the seaside near Watchet on the Somerset coast to film a second four-part series of the show with...
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Watchet and Blue Anchor show a distinct pale, greenish blue colour, resulting from the coloured alabaster found there. The name "Watchet" or "Watchet...
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middle-aged divorcees doing up a boat on the Somerset coast. It was filmed in Watchet, Somerset (a small shipping port on the south-west coast of England) over...
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cliff face north of the hamlet of East Quantoxhead, 6 kilometres east of Watchet, Somerset, England, within the Blue Lias, and was ratified in 2000. The...
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statue of the Ancient Mariner with the albatross hung from his neck at Watchet Harbour, Somerset, England, unveiled in September 2003 as a tribute to...
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descendants of Sir John Wyndham (d.1573) of Orchard Wyndham in the parish of Watchet, Somerset, by his wife Elizabeth Sydenham, daughter and co-heiress of Sir...
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RAF Warwick England Warwickshire 1941 1945 Relief Landing Ground RAF Watchet England Somerset 1937 1940 RAF offshore firing range, Queen Bee launch...
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Staffordshire, Taunton, Thetford, Totnes, Wallingford, Wareham, Warwick, Watchet, Wilton, Winchcombe, Winchester, Worcester, and York. During the relatively...
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population were the coastal towns of Minehead (population 10,000) and Watchet (4,400). The council's administrative headquarters were located in the...
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The Watchet Harbour Lighthouse is a marine navigational aid marking the entrance to a Marina within the town of Watchet, in Somerset, England. In the...
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Strand Trearddur Tynemouth Tywyn Ventnor, Isle of Wight Walton-on-the-Naze Watchet Westcliff-on-Sea Westgate-on-Sea Weston-super-Mare Westward Ho! Weymouth...
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died of influenza 21 February 1912 at Watchet in Somerset. He was buried at the Church of St Decuman, Watchet. Reynolds most famously studied the conditions...
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Spain, and Scandinavia. Alabaster is also found, in smaller quantity, at Watchet in Somerset, near Penarth in Glamorganshire, and elsewhere. In Cumbria...
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Ives, Cornwall Padstow Appledore, Torridge, Devon Bideford Barnstaple Watchet Port of Bridgwater, Bridgwater Port of Bristol, Bristol Avonmouth Docks...
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irregular masses or veins of gypsum, which was mined on the foreshore at Watchet. Several areas have outcrops of slates. Younger rocks of the Jurassic period...
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Somerset TA TA21 WELLINGTON Somerset TA TA22 Dulverton Somerset TA TA23 Watchet Somerset TA TA24 Minehead Somerset TD TD01 TD1 Galashiels Selkirkshire...
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June 2014. They sang at Guilfest, Guildford, UK, on 20 July 2014, and Watchet Live music festival UK, on 24 August 2014. In March 2015, Farian released...
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Wansbrough Paper Mill (category Watchet)
paper mill located in the town of Watchet, Somerset, when it was the UK's largest manufacturer of coreboard. Watchet, then a relatively isolated farming...
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Milton Credan of Bodmin Congar of Congresbury Dachuna of Bodmin Decuman of Watchet Elfin of Warrington Ivo of Ramsey Judoc of Winchester Melorius of Amesbury...
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