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Bridgwater & Albion are Somerset's highest-placed rugby team, playing in National League 3 South and are based at College Way. [160] It was founded in 1875. [161] The cricket club play at The Parks on Durleigh Road. [162] Bridgwater Hockey Club was founded in 1925 and field four men's teams and three women's teams, playing fixtures at 1610 ...
The Parish Church of St Mary [1], more commonly known as St Mary's, [2] is the main Church of England parish church for the town of Bridgwater, Somerset.Originally founded well before the Norman Conquest, the present church is a large and impressive structure dating primarily from the 14th and 15th centuries, with both earlier remains and later additions.
Bridgwater Castle was a castle in the town of Bridgwater, Somerset, England. The stone castle was built around 1220 and contributed to the development of the town. It was surrounded by a moat and included a watergate giving access to the quay.
In the medieval period the River Parrett was used to transport Hamstone from the quarry at Ham Hill, [61] Bridgwater was part of the Port of Bristol until the Port of Bridgwater was created in 1348, [48] covering 80 miles (130 km) of the Somerset coast line, from the Devon border to the mouth of the River Axe.
Bridgwater Friary was a Franciscan monastery in Bridgwater, Somerset, England, established in 1245 and dissolved in 1538. It was founded by William Briwere and moved from another location. Further buildings were added in 1278 and 1284. [1] The church was rebuilt in the 15th century and consecrated in 1445. [2]
Entrance to BAE Systems, Bridgwater. Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Bridgwater was a factory between the villages of Puriton and Woolavington in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, England that produced high explosives for munitions. It was slightly above sea level, between the 5-and-10-metre (16 and 33 ft) contour lines on Ordnance Survey maps.
Huntworth is a small hamlet and farming community (population approximately 50), within the civil parish of North Petherton 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the M5 motorway 3 miles (4.8 km) from Bridgwater, Somerset, England. Huntworth was in the news on 5/12/19 as it was the epicentre of a 3.2 magnitude earthquake.
Sydenham House, west front, in 2015 Sydenham House, south side, in 2015 "Sydenham Manor" shown to the north-east of the historic centre of Bridgwater in a 1946 map. Sydenham House, the manor house of the ancient manor of Sydenham in the parish of Wembdon, [1] Somerset, England, is a grade II listed building, [2] constructed in the early 16th century and refronted and rebuilt after 1613. [3]