Watchet
Watchet is a harbour town, civil parish and also electoral ward in the English area of Somerset, with a population of 3,785. It is located 15 miles (24 km) west of Bridgwater, 15 miles (24 km) north-west of Taunton, as well as 9 miles (14 km) eastern of Minehead. The town exists at the mouth of the Washford River on Bridgwater Bay, part of the Bristol Channel, as well as on the edge of Exmoor National Park. The initial negotiation might have been at the Iron Age fort Daw's Castle. It then moved to the mouth of the river as well as a small harbour created, called by the celts as "Gwo Coed" suggesting Under the Wood. After the Saxon conquest of the area the town developed and also was referred to as Weced or Waeced and also was attacked by Vikings in the 10th century. Trade making use of the harbour gradually expanded, in spite of damage during several severe storms, with import as well as exports of goods consisting of those from Wansbrough Paper Mill till the 19th century when it enhanced with the export of iron ore, brought from the Brendon Hills via the West Somerset Mineral Railway, primarily to Newport for onward transportation to the Ebbw Vale Steelworks. The West Somerset Railway additionally served the town and also port bringing items and also people from the Bristol and Exeter Railway. The iron ore profession lowered and also stopped in the early-20th century. The port proceeded a smaller sized industrial profession up until 2000 when it was exchanged a marina. The church is committed to Saint Decuman who is thought to have actually died right here around 706. A very early church was built near Daw's Castle as well as a new church was erected in the 15th century. It has a number of burial places and monuments to Sir John Wyndham as well as his family members who were the lords of the estate. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner which was written in the area is memorialized by a statue on the harbourside.
