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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 ]
Dismaland was a temporary art project organised by street artist Banksy in the seaside resort of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. [1] Prepared in secret, the pop-up exhibition at the Tropicana , a disused lido , was "a sinister twist on Disneyland " that opened during the weekend of 21 August 2015 [ 2 ] and closed on 27 September 2015 ...
Worle (/ w ɜːr l / WURL) is a village in the civil parish of Weston-Super-Mare, in the North Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. It is joined to the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare on its western edge. It, however, maintains a very separate identity, and may now be bigger than its more famous neighbour.
Weston-super-Mare is the busiest RNLI station on the south side of the Bristol Channel; in 2011 its two lifeboats were called out 42 times. [63] Historically, the largest number of people rescued at one time was on 22 September 1884 when 40 passengers were taken off the SS Welsh Prince which got into difficulties after leaving the pier. [58]
Nonetheless, the Latin preposition ‘oltre’, meaning "beyond" was added to ‘eschelture’. [6] The resulting Middle English phrase, ‘helter-skelter’, was adapted from the Anglo-French and Latin terms based on the pattern of reduplicative compounds, with the resulting meaning being "out of formation" and "in disordered haste, confusedly".
Rates generated by the zone are channelled to five other designated enterprise areas in the region: [189] Avonmouth, Bath, Bristol and Bath Science Park in Emersons Green, Filton, and Weston-super-Mare. Bristol is the only big city whose wealth per capita is higher than that of Britain as a whole.
Ben was born at 29 weeks at Southmead Hospital on 17 February 2015 and then went home with his parents on 7 April to Weston-super-Mare, the new inquest heard.
Weston-super-Mare railway station serves the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset, England.It is situated on a loop off the main Bristol to Taunton Line, 137 miles 33 chains (137.41 mi; 221.1 km) from the zero point at London Paddington via Box.