Blue Anchor

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Blue Anchor
Blue Anchor shown within Somerset
OS grid reference	ST022433
District	West Somerset
Shire county	Somerset
Region	South West
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MINEHEAD
Postcode district	TA24
Police	Avon and Somerset
Fire	Devon and Somerset
Ambulance	South Western
European Parliament	South West England
UK Parliament	Bridgwater
List of places: UK • England • Somerset

Coordinates: 51°10′52″N 3°23′58″W / 51.181, -3.3993

Blue Anchor is a seaside village, close to Carhampton in the West Somerset district of Somerset, England.

The village takes its name from a 17th century Inn.

The village marks one end of the Blue Anchor to Lilstock Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest along which the Triassic cliffs have geological interest for the variety of fossils. The coloured alabaster found in the cliffs gave rise to the name of the colour "Watchet Blue".^[1] It is on the South West Coast Path.

Blue Anchor railway station is a station on the West Somerset Railway, a heritage railway in Somerset, United Kingdom. It is situated in the seaside village of Blue Anchor and houses the museum of the West Somerset Steam Railway Trust.

Within the village is the only example of an updraught brick kiln, known to have survived in Somerset. It as built around 1830, supplied by small vessels carrying limestone to the small culm landing,^[2] and is now used as a garage. The Kiln is thought to have been used until the 1870's when the large scale production of bricks in Bridgwater rendered small brickyards uneconomic.^[3]

Marshwood farmhouse dates from the late 15th century and was originally a manor house or grange. It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building.^[4]

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