Highbridge
Highbridge is a historic market town on the edge of the Somerset Levels near the mouth of the River Brue in the county of Somerset, England. It is 20 miles northeast of Taunton and 7 miles north of Bridgwater.Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Locality with 4,610 residents
- Description: town in Somerset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Highbridge, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include River Brue and Highbridge and Burnham railway station.
River Brue
River
The River Brue originates in the parish of Brewham in Somerset, England, and reaches the sea some 50 kilometres west at Burnham-on-Sea. It originally took a different route from Glastonbury to the sea, but this was changed by Glastonbury Abbey in the twelfth century.
Highbridge and Burnham railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Highbridge and Burnham railway station is situated on the Bristol to Exeter line in the town of Highbridge, Somerset and also serves the neighbouring town of Burnham-on-Sea.
St John the Evangelist
Church
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St John the Evangelist is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Huntspill and Burnham-on-Sea.
Huntspill
Village
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Huntspill is a village and former civil parish on the Huntspill Level in Somerset, 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 Huntspill.
Burnham-on-Sea
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Burnham-on-Sea is a seaside town in Somerset, England, at the mouth of the River Parrett, upon Bridgwater Bay. Burnham was a small fishing village until the late 18th century when it began to grow because of its popularity as a seaside resort. Burnham-on-Sea is situated 1½ miles northwest of Highbridge.
Stretcholt
Hamlet
Photo: Adrian and Janet Quantock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pawlett is a village and civil parish 4 miles north of Bridgwater, in the English county of Somerset. The parish includes the hamlet of Stretcholt. The village has Roman or Saxon origins. Stretcholt is situated 2 miles southwest of Highbridge.
Highbridge
- Categories: town and market town
- Location: Burnham-on-Sea and Highbridge, Sedgemoor District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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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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