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Brean
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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.
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- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Brean
- UK place.static_image_name
- Brean Sands, Somerset, England, from Brean Down arp.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Brean Sands and village from Brean Down
- UK place.population
- 635
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.unitary_england
- Somerset Council
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Somerset
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Bridgwater
- UK place.post_town
- BURNHAM-ON-SEA
- UK place.postcode_district
- TA8
- UK place.postcode_area
- TA
- UK place.dial_code
- 01278
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- ST296560
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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.
Close to the village is Brean Down, a promontory standing high and extending into the Bristol Channel, on which stands Brean Down Fort, marking the end of Weston Bay.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brean” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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