Village and civil parish in Somerset, England

Brean

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

Every way there

London → Brean
36 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £4.5–6
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Brean
151 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £16–22
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Luton, Luton → Brean
61 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–11
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Brean, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Brean has

YScheduled flightsBristol (BRS), 22 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
YFerriesKnightstone Harbour, 6 km, Kenneth Allsop Memorial Trust; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Weston-super-Mare, 6 km.

51.300°, -3.011°

The name is derived from "Bryn"; Brythonic and Modern Welsh for a hill. It has a population of 635.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.