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The Bristol and Exeter Railway arrived in Weston-super-Mare on 14 June 1841. This was not the route that serves today's Weston-super-Mare railway station, but rather a single-track branch line from Weston Junction, midway between the present day Worle and Uphill junctions, which terminated at a small station in Regent Street close to the High ...
North Somerset contains the parliamentary constituencies of Weston-super-Mare and North Somerset. A scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or monument which is given legal protection by being placed on a list (or "schedule") by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport ; English Heritage takes the leading ...
Weston-super-Mare is the busiest RNLI station on the south side of the Bristol Channel. In 2010 it was called into action on 47 occasions, rescuing 27 people and a dog which had fallen down a cliff; [ 14 ] in 2011 there were 42 launches totalling 133 hours at sea and resulting in the rescue of 19 people.
The Weston, Worle & Somerset Mercury is a weekly paid for newspaper that covers Weston-super-Mare and the surrounding areas of Somerset and North Somerset in England. The Weston Mercury was established 1 April 1843 and was family-owned for much of its history.
The settlement of Worle was, however, better served by a new station on the Weston Loop line when it opened on 1 March 1884 and so the one on the main line was renamed again, now being called "Puxton". Worle station on the Loop was itself closed on 2 January 1922 and so the main line station was given yet another name, now "Puxton and Worle".
In 1922 this new route was completed and called the Weston-Elgin Highway, which later became Highway 204, which still runs by the Langdon Lake. [5] In 1940 a postoffice was established and would continue serving the community until 1954. Today mail for the Tollgate community is routed through a post office in Weston. [6]
Woodspring Priory (originally Worsprynge [1] or Worspring) is a former Augustinian priory.It is near the scenic limestone promontory of Sand Point and Middle Hope, owned by the National Trust, beside the Severn Estuary about 3 miles (5 km) north-east of Weston-super-Mare, within the English unitary authority of North Somerset.
Leaving Weston, the route follows the B3440 Locking Road to its end at the A370 at Worle. It then briefly joins the A370 before joining the M5 northbound towards Clevedon. The X5 leaves the M5 at Junction 20 for Clevedon and forms a loop around the town following Central Way, Southern Way, Old Church and Great Western Road into Clevedon Town ...