Sand Bay
Sand Bay is a strip of coast in North Somerset bordered to the south by Worlebury Hill and to the north by Sand Point and Middle Hope. It lies 2 miles north of the seaside resort of Weston-super-Mare, and across the Bristol Channel from South Wales.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include St Paul’s Church, Kewstoke and Worlebury Camp.
St Paul’s Church, Kewstoke
Church
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The Church of St Paul in Kewstoke, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century with the tower being built in 1395. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
Worlebury Camp
Archaeological site
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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
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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. Weston College is situated 1½ miles south of Sand Bay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kewstoke and Weston-super-Mare.
Kewstoke
Hamlet
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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.
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.
Worle
Village
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Worle is a village in the civil parish of Weston-Super-Mare, in the North Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. It is joined to the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare on its western edge. Worle is situated 2 miles southeast of Sand Bay.
Sand Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Somerset, England, UK
- Category: body of water
- Location: North Somerset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Sand Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sand Bay (luuk sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Cebuano: “Sand Bay”
- Japanese: “サンド・ベイ”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sand Bay”
- Swedish: “Sand Bay (vik i Storbritannien)”
- Swedish: “Sand Bay”
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