Blue Anchor Bay
Blue Anchor Bay is a bay in West Somerset District, Somerset, England. Blue Anchor Bay is situated nearby to the locality Marsh Street, as well as near the hamlet Ellicombe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Butlin’s Minehead and Dunster Castle.
Butlin’s Minehead
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Butlins Resort Minehead is a holiday camp operated by Butlins, located in Minehead in Somerset, England. It opened in 1962 and remains in use today. It was known as Butlin's Minehead until 1987, and as Somerwest World from then until 1999, when it reopened as Butlins Minehead Resort.
Dunster Castle
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Dunster Castle is a former motte and bailey castle, now a country house, in the village of Dunster, Somerset, England. The castle lies on the top of a steep hill called the Tor, and has been fortified since the late Anglo-Saxon period. Dunster Castle is situated 2 miles south of Blue Anchor Bay.
Dunster railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dunster railway station is near Dunster, Somerset, England and is on the West Somerset Railway, a heritage railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Minehead and Dunster.
Minehead
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Minehead is a coastal town and civil parish in Somerset, England. It lies on the south bank of the Bristol Channel, 21 miles north-west of the county town of Taunton, 12 miles from the boundary with the county of Devon and close to the Exmoor National Park.
Dunster
Village
Photo: Arpingstone, Public domain.
Dunster is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, within the north-eastern boundary of Exmoor National Park. It lies on the Bristol Channel 2.5 miles southeast of Minehead and 20 miles northwest of Taunton. Dunster is situated 2 miles south of Blue Anchor Bay.
Blue Anchor
Village
Photo: Mark Percy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blue Anchor is a seaside village, in the parish of Old Cleeve, close to Carhampton in Somerset, England. The village takes its name from a 17th-century inn; the bay, Blue Anchor Bay, was previously known as Cleeve Bay. Blue Anchor is situated 2½ miles southeast of Blue Anchor Bay.
Blue Anchor Bay
- Type: Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: West Somerset District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.2111° or 51° 12′ 40″ northLongitude
-3.43799° or 3° 26′ 17″ westOpen location code
9C3R6H66+CRGeoNames ID
11103122
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