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    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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    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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    Periton & Woodcombe; Porlock & District; Quantock Vale; South Quantock; Watchet & Williton; Wiveliscombe & District. It will comprise the following areas:...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    The Ancient Mariner statue at Watchet, Somerset, England...
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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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    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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  • (disambiguation) RAF Daws Hill, a closed Royal Air Force base Daw's Castle, Watchet, Somerset, England This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
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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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    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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  • Merriott, Minehead, Montacute, Somerton, South Petherton, Stoke-sub-Hamdon, Watchet and Wellington), plus very small parts of Dorset and Devon. The approximate...
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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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    Wyndham (1558 – 1 April 1645), JP, of Orchard Wyndham in the parish of Watchet in Somerset, was an English landowner who played an important role in the...
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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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  • the A39, A358 and B3191 roads, on the coast 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Watchet between Minehead, Bridgwater and Taunton in the now-defunct Somerset West...
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    the 9th century. Viking raids took place for instance in 987 and 997 at Watchet and the Battle of Cynwit. King Alfred was driven to seek refuge from the...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Bridgwater, the Urban Districts of Burnham-on-Sea, Highbridge, Minehead, and Watchet, and the Rural Districts of Bridgwater and Williton. 1950–1983: The Municipal...
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