Brean Down
Brean Down is a promontory off the coast of Somerset, England, standing 318 feet high and extending 1+1⁄2 miles into the Bristol Channel at the eastern end of Bridgwater Bay between Weston-super-Mare and Burnham-on-Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Brean Down Fort and Tropicana.
Brean Down Fort
Archaeological site
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Brean Down Fort was a Victorian naval fortification designed to protect the Bristol Channel. It was built 60 feet above sea level on the headland at Brean Down, 9 miles south of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England.
Tropicana
Arts center
The Tropicana, formerly a Lido site that once contained an outdoor swimming pool, is located in the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset, England. Tropicana is situated 2 miles northeast of Brean Down.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Uphill and Weston-super-Mare.
Uphill
Village
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Uphill is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Weston-super-Mare, in the North Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, at the southern edge of the town, on the Bristol Channel coast. Uphill is situated 2 miles east of Brean Down.
Weston-super-Mare
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Weston-super-Mare is a typical English seaside resort on the shore of the Bristol Channel, in the county of Somerset, approximately 25 mi south-west of Bristol, 35 miles west of Bath and 20 miles north of Bridgwater.
Bleadon
Hamlet
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Bleadon is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is about 4 miles south of Weston-super-Mare and, according to the 2021 census, has a population of 1,149. Bleadon is situated 3½ miles east of Brean Down.
Brean Down
- Type: Peninsula
- Description: promontory in Somerset, England
- Categories: headland, hill, and landform
- Location: Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Brean Down” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Brean Down”
- Dutch: “Brean Down”
- French: “Brean Down”
- German: “Brean Down”
- Italian: “Brean Down”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brean Down”
- Swedish: “Brean Down”
- Welsh: “Brean Down”
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