Watchet is a harbour town, civil parish as well as electoral ward in the English region of Somerset, with a population of 3,785. It is located 15 miles (24 km) west of Bridgwater, 15 miles (24 kilometres) north-west of Taunton, and also 9 miles (14 kilometres) east of Minehead. The town exists at the mouth of the Washford River on Bridgwater Bay, part of the Bristol Channel, and on the edge of Exmoor National Park. The original negotiation might have gone to the Iron Age fort Daw's Castle. It after that moved to the mouth of the river and also a tiny harbour established, called by the celts as "Gwo Coed" suggesting Under the Wood. After the Saxon conquest of the location the community developed and also was called Weced or Waeced and was struck by Vikings in the 10th century. Trade using the harbour gradually grew, regardless of damages throughout numerous severe storms, with import and also exports of items including those from Wansbrough Paper Mill until the 19th century when it boosted with the export of iron ore, brought from the Brendon Hills by means of the West Somerset Mineral Railway, generally to Newport for onward transport to the Ebbw Vale Steelworks. The West Somerset Railway also offered the community as well as port bringing goods as well as people from the Bristol and Exeter Railway. The iron ore trade lowered and stopped in the early-20th century. The port continued a smaller sized business profession till 2000 when it was exchanged a marina. The church is devoted to Saint Decuman that is believed to have actually died here around 706. An early church was developed near Daw's Castle and a brand-new church was erected in the 15th century. It has numerous burial places as well as monoliths to Sir John Wyndham and his family who were the lords of the mansion. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's rhyme The Rime of the Ancient Mariner which was written in the location is honored by a sculpture on the harbourside.