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Watchet

Watchet is a harbour town in . It is also a popular holiday destination and is a stop on the West Somerset Railway.
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  • Type: Town with 3,580 residents
  • Description: town in Somerset, England
  • Also known as: “Watchet, Somerset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Watchet Harbour Lighthouse and Watchet Boat Museum.

Lighthouse
Photo: Robert Cutts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a marine navigational aid marking the entrance to a Marina within the town of Watchet, in Somerset, England.

Museum
Photo: Rodw, Public domain.
is a small museum in Watchet, , England. It is housed in the 1862, Victorian, former railway goods shed of , which is today located on the heritage West Somerset Railway.

Castle
Photo: Sic19, CC0.
Daw's Castle is a sea cliff hillfort just west of Watchet, a harbour town in , England. It is a Scheduled Monument. The name comes from Thomas Dawe, who owned castell field in 1537.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Cleeve and Washford.

Village
Photo: Martin Southwood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village 5 miles south east of in , England, and also a civil parish. The civil parish of covers an area of 2,092 hectares and includes the villages of , and as well as hamlets such as Bilbrook, Chapel Cleeve, Golsoncott and Leighland Chapel. is situated 2 miles southwest of Watchet.

Village
Photo: MortimerCat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village on the River in the civil parish of , , England. The village is next to , one of the best-preserved medieval monasteries in England.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet, which is situated 2½ miles southeast of Watchet.

Watchet

Latitude
51.1799° or 51° 10′ 48″ north
Longitude
-3.3306° or 3° 19′ 50″ west
Population
3,580
Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB WAT
Open location code
9C3R5MH9+XP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 290923928
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2634704
Wiki­data ID
Q641921
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Watchet” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Watchet”
  • Basque: “Watchet”
  • Bulgarian: “Уочет”
  • Catalan: “Watchet”
  • Cebuano: “Watchet”
  • Chinese: “Watchet”
  • Chinese: “沃切特”
  • Dutch: “Watchet”
  • French: “Watchet”
  • German: “Watchet”
  • Irish: “Watchet”
  • Italian: “Watchet”
  • Japanese: “ウォチェット”
  • Japanese: “ウォッチェット”
  • Ladin: “Watchet”
  • Latin: “Watchet”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Watchet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Watchet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Watchet”
  • Norwegian: “Watchet”
  • Persian: “واتچت”
  • Polish: “Watchet”
  • Romanian: “Watchet”
  • South Azerbaijani: “واتچت”
  • Spanish: “Watchet”
  • Swedish: “Watchet”
  • Turkish: “Watchet”
  • Volapük: “Watchet”
  • Welsh: “Watchet”
  • “Watchet”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Watchet”. Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.