Watchet

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Watchet
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Statistics
Population:
Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference: ST074431
Administration
District: West Somerset
Shire county: Somerset
Region: South West England
Constituent country: England
Sovereign state: United Kingdom
Other
Ceremonial county: Somerset
Historic county: Somerset
Services
Police force: Avon and Somerset Police
Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}}
Ambulance: South Western
Post office and telephone
Post town: WATCHET
Postal district: TA23
Dialling code: 01984
Politics
UK Parliament: Bridgwater
European Parliament: South West England

Watchet is a harbour town in Somerset, England on the edge of Exmoor. In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the ancient mariner set sail from Watchet.

View of most of Watchet taken from a nearby hill
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View of most of Watchet taken from a nearby hill

Watchet is a station on the West Somerset Railway and is the place where Saint Decuman was killed. Cleeve Abbey lies a short distance away.

In the mid 1860s two independent railways terminated at Watchet. The West Somerset Mineral Railway ran down from the iron mines on the Brendon Hills, and the West Somerset Railway came up from the Bristol & Exeter Railway at Norton Fitzwarren. Both lines made extensive use of the harbour at Watchet.

[edit] Other usage

The word "Watchet" was used in the 16th century to designated a pale, greenish blue colour.

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