A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
BRIDGEWATER BAY, an expansion of the SE side of Bristol channel. It is the Vexaia Æstuarinm of the Romans. It commences between Horsedown point and Brean down, which are 22 ½ miles apart; and goes inward 9 miles to the mouth of the Parret river. Most of it has a depth of from 10 to 3 fathoms at high water; and great part of it is dry at low water. The Gore and the Culver sands are part of its bottom; Stert island lies at its head, in the mouth of the Parret estuary; and lights at Burnham, NE of that island, guide the fair-way into the estuary.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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