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Brean

Brean is a village and civil parish between Weston-super-Mare and Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, England.

Brean
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The place

Brean is a village and civil parish between Weston-super-Mare and Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, England. The name is derived from "Bryn"; Brythonic and Modern Welsh for a hill. It has a population of 635.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Brean

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Church of St Bridget

    St Bridget's Church, Brean is the Church of England parish church of the village of Brean in Somerset, England. The parish is part of a benefice with the Parish Church of St Mary, Berrow.

    200 m · church in Brean, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Multi-period site on Brean Down

    Brean Down Fort was a Victorian naval fortification designed to protect the Bristol Channel. It was built 60 feet above sea level on the headland at Brean Down, 9 miles south of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England.

    2.7 km · archaeological site and fort in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Brean Leisure Park

    Brean Leisure Park also known as Brean Theme Park, is an amusement park in the coastal resort of Brean, near Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England. The park covers an area of 200 acres.

    1.6 km · amusement park in the coastal resort of Brean, near Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Mary, Berrow

    The Church of St Mary in Berrow, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and was restored in the 19th. It has been designated as a grade I listed building.

    3.7 km · church in Berrow, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Brean

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 22 km · Cardiff (CWL), 25 km · Birmingham (BHX), 155 km
  • London → Brean
    202 km · quickest by road, 3h 56m · £22–29
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Brean
    151 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £16–22
  • Luton, Luton → Brean
    190 km · quickest by road, 4h · £24–32
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Brean

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Brean. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    116 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    137 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    496 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    500 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    532 km

If you know how people move in Brean – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Brean

Brean is 23 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Berrowvillage and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK3.7 km
  • Uphillvillage in Somerset, United Kingdom3.5 km