Anchor Head
Anchor Head is a locality in North Somerset, England. Anchor Head is situated nearby to the suburb Cliftonville, as well as near the locality Weston-super-Mare Central Ward.Places of Interest
Highlights include Holy Trinity Church and Worlebury Camp.
Worlebury Camp
Archaeological site
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Worlebury Camp is the site of an Iron Age hillfort on Worlebury Hill, north of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. The fort was well defended with numerous walls, embankments and ditches around the site.
Weston College
College
Photo: Ann Causer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Weston College of Further and Higher Education is a general college of further and higher education in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, England. It provides education and vocational training from age 14 to adult.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Weston-super-Mare and Kewstoke.
Weston-super-Mare
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Kewstoke
Hamlet
Photo: Adrian and Janet Quantock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kewstoke is a civil parish and village in Somerset, England, within the unitary authority of North Somerset, located next to the strip of coast called Sand Bay. Its population in the 2011 census was 1,690. Kewstoke is situated 2 miles northeast of Anchor Head.
Uphill
Village
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 south of Anchor Head.
Anchor Head
- Type: Locality
- Category: cape
- Location: North Somerset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.35416° or 51° 21′ 15″ northLongitude
-2.99409° or 2° 59′ 39″ westElevation
236 feet (72 metres)Open location code
9C3V9234+M9OpenStreetMap ID
node 13763598123OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Anchor Head” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Anchor Head”
- Swedish: “Anchor Head”
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