Photo: Brean Down, a viewpoint near Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, south west England. — © Mat Fascione / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Brean Down

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Brean Down is a long limestone headland that strides out into the Bristol Channel near Weston-super-Mare, its grassy spine ending in a Victorian fort of the 1860s that was re-armed again in the Second World War. The National Trust looks after it, and it’s open access — a steep path or a flight of steps gets you up onto the down. Weston-super-Mare station is about 4.5km to the north-east.

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