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The channel as seen from Barry, Wales The Bristol Channel coast at Ilfracombe, North Devon, looking west towards Lee Bay, with Lundy in the distance. The Bristol Channel is an important area for wildlife, in particular waders, and has protected areas, including national nature reserves such as Bridgwater Bay at the mouth of the River Parrett.
The Bristol Channel. A number of ships have run aground or sunk in the Bristol Channel, [1] a stretch of water between southern Wales, Devon and Somerset. Cardiff, Barry and Penarth were once the largest coal exporters in the world and the channel received significant traffic at the beginning of the twentieth century during exportation.
The Wolves are three small rocky islets just over a mile northwest of the island of Flat Holm in the Bristol Channel. [1] They measure approximately 25 metres by 20 metres and have been responsible for the wrecking of at least two ships:
Building a tidal lagoon in the Bristol Channel could provide clean energy for 120 years, an MP has said. The proposed West Somerset Lagoon, which would cost £10bn to build, would run nine miles ...
Ports and harbours of the Bristol Channel (3 C, 20 P) R. River basins of the Bristol Channel (9 C) S. Shipwrecks in the Bristol Channel (12 P) Swansea Bay (35 P)
The Wolves (Bristol Channel) This page was last edited on 21 October 2016, at 21:13 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The Bristol Channel floods of 30 January 1607 [a] drowned many people and destroyed a large amount of farmland and livestock during a flood in the Bristol Channel.The known tide heights, probable weather, extent and depth of flooding, and coastal flooding elsewhere in the British Isles on the same day all point to the cause being a storm surge rather than a tsunami.
South Australian was a composite-hulled clipper ship that was built in Sunderland in 1868 and sank in the Bristol Channel in 1889. She was a successor to clippers St Vincent and City of Adelaide. For nearly two decades she voyaged annually between London and South Australia.