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Weston-super-Mare is a tourist destination, with its long sandy beach, Helicopter Museum, [84] Weston Museum, Grand Pier and seasonal Wheel of Weston. [85] A 2009 survey by Visit England placed the Grand Pier in the top ten free attractions in England. [ 86 ]
Weston Museum was founded in 1861 by William Mable. A shoemaker by trade, Mable came to Weston-super-Mare from London prior to the 1851 census. [3]In 1851 the Reverend R Warre instigated an archaeological investigation of the camp of Celtic Britons on Worlebury Hill. [3]
The Grand Pier is a pleasure pier in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, situated on the Bristol Channel approximately 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Bristol.It opened in 1904 and has been Listed Grade II since 1983. [1]
The Helicopter Museum in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, England, is a museum featuring a collection of more than 80 helicopters and autogyros from around the world, both civilian and military. It is based at the southeastern corner of the former Weston-super-Mare RAF Base.
The park played host to home matches for Somerset between 1914 and 1996. The ground had a capacity of 6,000 spectators. The first recorded match on the ground which involved a senior cricket team was on 21 August 1914 and saw a Weston-super-Mare team play Glamorgan, seven years before Glamorgan were awarded first-class status.
Weston-super-Mare Lifeboat Station is a lifeboat station at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. [2] For more than 100 years it was situated on Birnbeck Island but is now in a temporary building at Knightstone Harbour until a new lifeboat station can be built nearby.