Somerset
Sedgemoor District
Burnham-on-Sea & Highbridge

Highbridge

Highbridge is a historic market town on the edge of the Somerset Levels near the mouth of the in the county of , England. It is 20 miles northeast of and 7 miles north of .
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  • Type: Town with 4,610 residents
  • Description: town in Somerset, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Highbridge, Somerset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Highbridge and Burnham railway station and St John the Evangelist.

Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated on the Bristol Temple Meads - Exeter St David's Line in the town of Highbridge, and also serves the neighbouring town of .

Church
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a church.

River
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The originates in the parish of in , England, and reaches the sea some 50 kilometres west at . It originally took a different route from to the sea, but this was changed by in the twelfth century.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Huntspill and Burnham-on-Sea.

Village
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and former civil parish on the Level in , England. It lies on the A38 road, 1.5 miles south of Highbridge. The village is the principal settlement in the civil parish of West .

Town
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is a seaside town in , England, at the mouth of the , upon . Burnham was a small fishing village until the late 18th century when it began to grow because of its popularity as a seaside resort. is situated 1½ miles northwest of Highbridge.

Village
Photo: Tim, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, formerly known as South Brent, is a village and civil parish in , England, which lies on the southern edge of – a hill with a height of 137 metres that dominates the low surrounding landscape of the Somerset Levels. is situated 2½ miles north of Highbridge.

Highbridge

Latitude
51.22001° or 51° 13′ 12″ north
Longitude
-2.97641° or 2° 58′ 35″ west
Population
4,610
Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB HIG
Open location code
9C3V62CF+2C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 472429001
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2646977
Wiki­data ID
Q684317
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Highbridge” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Highbridge”
  • Basque: “Highbridge (Somerset)”
  • Basque: “Highbridge”
  • Bavarian: “Highbridge (Somerset)|”
  • Bulgarian: “Хигхбридге”
  • Cebuano: “Highbridge”
  • Dutch: “Highbridge”
  • French: “Highbridge”
  • German: “Highbridge (Somerset)|”
  • German: “Highbridge”
  • Italian: “Highbridge”
  • Ladin: “Highbridge”
  • Latin: “Highbridge”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Highbridge i Somerset”
  • Persian: “هایبریج، سامرست”
  • Polish: “Highbridge”
  • Romanian: “Highbridge”
  • Russian: “Хайбридж”
  • Swedish: “Highbridge”
  • Volapük: “Highbridge”
  • Welsh: “Highbridge, Gwlad yr Haf”
  • Welsh: “Highbridge”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Hope Baptist Church and Highbridge Cemetery.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Highbridge”. Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.