Channel Resorts & Exmoor
The Heritage Coast
Portishead is a sedentary change to its City neighbour, as here the pace is slower. For your enjoyment there is a leisure centre, tennis courts, outdoor swimming-pool, a boating lake, cricket grounds, football and hockey pitches also cycle lanes. For cafes, restaurants and bars, watching yachts and boating activity there is a marina and nearby the Royal Hotel offers an alternative style. Troughout and around the town there is a good selection of places to stay, and in the summer, a Carnival, Raft Race and a Flower Show.
Clevedon is not unlike Portishead with its gentle pace of life. Te Victorian Pier has been refurbished, and there are adjacent selection of cafes and restaurants. Also at Clevedon there are pebbled beaches and a marine lake, ornamental gardens, plus an historic bandstand all close to each other. Next to the marine lake there is a fun light railway. Water sports are popular with canoeing and sailing, and a variety of other sports, all of which welcome visitors. Hill Road, which is near the Pier, has a selection of local shops, whilst the town
centre Triangle has a range of high street shops and supermarkets. For walkers there is a long promenade and other routes, including Poets walk for a hillside walk or picnic with sea views. For sustenance the interesting Old Inn (Circa 1740) is worth a visit.
Places to visit include: National Trust Clevedon Court exhibiting pottery and glassware, and Tyntesfield, where terraced lawns give way to spacious parkland. Waterloo House Heritage Centre is for Clevedon’s past and outside the town at Kenn, the historic Drum & Monkey offers great food and you may meet Nellie the resident ghost.
Weston-Super-Mare has clean sandy beaches and a level promenade with a miniature railway, plus superb sea views from the Big Wheel. On the beaches there are areas for wind and water sports, donkey rides, Punch & Judy, and ‘sand artists’, who make crazy things with sand. At the harbour there are boat trips, and along the seafront there are: crazy golf, arcades, restaurants and pubs, shops selling beach things and much more. Away from the
seafront the natural parklands of Ashcombe, Grove, Clarence and Ellenborough provide a change.
Te beach is a great viewpoint to see such spectacles as: the Beach Race, Weston Air Festival, and Pro Nationals Motocross Festival. In the town there are events such as the Weston Super Food Festival, the Weston Carnival, an array of street fayres, local produce markets, classic car displays and other events.
Wet weather attractions include: the Sea Quarium, the Weston Super Mare Museum, Helicopter Museum and Grand Pier with state of the art rides, food and candy floss. Tere is a wide variety of entertainment on at the Playhouse Teatre and the Winter Gardens to suit all ages. Weston– Super–Mare has something going on throughout the season, plus a wide selection of places to eat and stay. Weston also has a vibrant night life.
Burnham on Sea has seven miles of golden sand, donkey rides, boating, fishing and sailing in Bridgwater Bay. Places to visit in the town, or within a few miles,
Burham on Sea
include: Apex Park with fishing, a kids play area, a skate park and walks. King Alfred’s Sports Centre has a full range of facilities for all ages and for golfers, Burnham and Berrow Golf Club welcomes visitors. For families the Brean Leisure Centre is outstanding and for home cooked food try the Victoria Hotel.
Other attractions are: Brean Down and Fort, Brent Knoll, Stert Island and Brean Down Bird Garden. Nearby, Berrow has the Animal Farm Country Park with rare breeds, domestic farm animals and more.
Highbridge has a lively farmers’ market on the first Friday of each month, and it is very close to the sands at Burnham-on-Sea. With a railway station and a nearby M5 junction, this is an ideal centre from which to explore the Quantocks and the Mendips. If you are a golfer you will enjoy the championship eighteen hole course right by the sea. Te Orchard Inn at nearby West Huntspill uses meat from their farm.
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