Brean Down is a promontory off the coast of Somerset, England, standing 318 feet (97 m) high and extending 1+1⁄2 miles (2.5 kilometres) into the Bristol...
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Brean Down Fort was a Victorian naval fortification designed to protect the Bristol Channel. It was built 60 feet (18 m) above sea level on the headland...
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village is Brean Down, a promontory standing 320 feet (98 m) high and extending 1.5 miles (2.4 km) into the Bristol Channel, on which stands Brean Down Fort...
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Interest. The SSSI includes most of the foreshore upstream from Cardiff and Brean Down and most of the upper estuary as far as Sharpness. The Upper Severn Estuary...
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Brean Down; however, the dip is at a different angle to that on Brean Down. On Steep Holm the dip is about 30 degrees to the north whereas at Brean Down...
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Trail. It stretches from Minehead at the southwestern end of the bay to Brean Down in the north. The area consists of large areas of mudflats, saltmarsh...
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Wilderhope Manor on Wenlock Edge Barrington Court Bath Assembly Rooms Brean Down Brean Down Fort Burrow Mump Cadbury Camp Cheddar Gorge Clevedon Court Coleridge...
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development and storage with testing. The "bouncing bomb" was tested at the Brean Down Fort on the opposite side of Weston Bay. After the war, the pier resumed...
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Minehead and the eastern extreme of the administrative county's coastline at Brean Down is known as Bridgwater Bay, and is a National Nature Reserve. North of...
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(which does not offer Archaeology courses). Additional locations included Brean Down Fort and Kings Weston House (both for episode 2), Chavenage House for...
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south of Loxton. From this point until it passes between Uphill Cliff and Brean Down, then reaches the coast at Weston Bay, the river demarcates Sedgemoor...
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Bristol Channel in the spring of 1897, from Penarth (near Cardiff) to Brean Down (just south west of Weston, on the other side of the River Axe). A second...
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These range from sites of Iron and Bronze Age occupations including Brean Down, Cadbury Camp and Cheddar Gorge to Elizabethan and Victorian era mansions...
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Channel towards England. Brean Down is in the centre of the photo. Weston-super-Mare is out of sight in the bay to the left of Brean Down. List of hill forts...
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stage. Principal photography took place on location in Burnham-on-Sea, Brean Down and Bristol at The Bottle Yard Studios. The work of local artists is featured...
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England (2007). "Brean Down (191317)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 2013-11-20. Apsimon, A.M. "The Roman Temple on Bream Down Somerset" (PDF)...
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ready". The transmitting equipment was almost immediately relocated to Brean Down Fort on the Somerset coast, stretching the range to 16 kilometres (9.9 mi)...
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Point, near Penarth; on the Flat Holmes, an island in mid-channel, and at Brean Down, a promontory on the Somerset side. Signals were obtained between the...
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Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, England, UK (Raleigh's house exteriors) Brean Down, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England (Queen Elizabeth addresses her troops)...
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band announced the release of the album, along with the first single "Brean Down". Beak 3 was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Album...
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Dr Tom Shaw, a tidal Power expert and advocate proposed a barrage from Brean Down to Lavernock Point. The scheme was estimated to cost £500 million. In...
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Sunrise viewed from Minehead, showing Steep Holm and Brean Down...
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Mendip plateau the Carboniferous Limestone continues in Bleadon Hill and Brean Down, and on the islands of Steep Holm and Flat Holm in the Bristol Channel...
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Brean Down". National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Archived from the original on 2 May 2014. Retrieved 1 May 2014. "Hillfort, Brean Down"...
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("Churchill's Toyshop"). Several experimental weapons were trialled at Brean Down Fort, a satellite unit of HMS Birnbeck (Birnbeck pier taken over as a...
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Albert, on the Isle of Wight Drake's Island Battery in Plymouth Sound Brean Down Fort, on Bristol Channel's south coast St Catherine's Fort, on southeast...
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tradition is that the bodies of the knights were returned to the island of Brean Down, off the coast of Weston-super-Mare and buried there. William de Tracy...
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tradition is that the bodies of the knights were returned to the island of Brean Down, off the coast of Weston-super-Mare, and buried there. The lordship of...
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some forts, such as the military garrison at Hod Hill, and the temple at Brean Down, but others were destroyed and abandoned. Partially articulated remains...
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Navigation and Quays Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. lxxxix) it extends from Brean Down to Hinkley Point in Bridgwater Bay, and parts of the rivers Parrett (to...
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