Nailsea
Nailsea is a town in North Somerset, England, 8 miles southwest of Bristol, and 11 miles northeast of Weston-super-Mare. The nearest village is Backwell, which lies south of Nailsea on the opposite side of the Bristol to Exeter railway line.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 20,500 residents
- Description: town in North Somerset, England
- Also known as: “Nailsea, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nailsea Glassworks and Nailsea School.
Nailsea Glassworks
Monument
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Nailsea Glassworks was a glass manufacturing factory in Nailsea in the English county of Somerset. The remaining structures have been designated as a scheduled monument.
Nailsea School
School
Photo: Thegoodlife55, Public domain.
Nailsea School, located in Nailsea, North Somerset, England, is a mixed secondary school and sixth form. It has Technology and Media Arts College specialist school status, and became an academy on 1 September 2012.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wraxall and Chelvey.
Wraxall
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wraxall is a village in North Somerset, England, about 6 miles west of Bristol. Until 1811 the parish of the same name also included Nailsea and Flax Bourton. The village is now within the parish of Wraxall and Failand.
Chelvey
Hamlet
Photo: NotFromUtrecht, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chelvey is a hamlet, which is situated 1½ miles south of Nailsea.
Backwell
Village
Photo: Edward, Public domain.
Backwell is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of North Somerset, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. In 2011 it had a population of 4,589. Backwell is situated 1½ miles southeast of Nailsea.
Nailsea
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Nailsea, North Somerset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.43342° or 51° 26′ 0″ northLongitude
-2.75851° or 2° 45′ 31″ westPopulation
20,500Elevation
102 feet (31 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB NSEOpen location code
9C3VC6MR+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 26268783OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Nailsea” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Nailsea”
- Basque: “Nailsea”
- Bengali: “নেইলসি”
- Cebuano: “Nailsea”
- Chinese: “Nailsea”
- Chinese: “奈尔希”
- Chinese: “奈爾希”
- Dutch: “Nailsea”
- French: “Nailsea”
- German: “Nailsea”
- Gujarati: “નૈલસી”
- Irish: “Nailsea”
- Italian: “Nailsea”
- Japanese: “ネイルシー”
- Kannada: “ನೈಲ್ಸೀ”
- Korean: “네이시”
- Ladin: “Nailsea”
- Latin: “Nailsea”
- Lithuanian: “Neilsis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nailsea”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nailsea”
- Persian: “نایلسی”
- Polish: “Nailsea”
- Portuguese: “Nailsea”
- Romanian: “Nailsea”
- Russian: “Нейлси”
- South Azerbaijani: “نایلسی”
- Spanish: “Nailsea”
- Swedish: “Nailsea”
- Tamil: “நைல்ஸீ”
- Telugu: “నైల్సీ”
- Turkish: “Nailsea”
- Urdu: “نیلسیا”
- Volapük: “Nailsea”
- Welsh: “Nailsea”
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