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Weston-super-Mare is a tourist destination, with its long sandy beach, Helicopter Museum, [84] Weston Museum, Grand Pier and seasonal Wheel of Weston. [85] A 2009 survey by Visit England placed the Grand Pier in the top ten free attractions in England. [ 86 ]
The old Weston-super-Mare Hospital dispensary has been named Hans Price House and stands on the corner of Hans Price Close. In 2011, it was announced that Wyvern Community School in Weston-super-Mare was to receive academy funding of £14 million and be renamed to Hans Price Academy. [16]
Worle (/ w ɜːr l / WURL) is a village in the civil parish of Weston-Super-Mare, in the North Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. It is joined to the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare on its western edge. It, however, maintains a very separate identity, and may now be bigger than its more famous neighbour.
In January 2015, North Somerset Council agreed to sell Weston-super-Mare's Winter Gardens Pavilion to Weston College for the nominal fee of £1. [9] The sale was part of the council's plan to regenerate Weston-super-Mare's town centre and the college intend to turn the 1989 extension into a law and professional services academy.
Aerial view of the eastern third of the bay and the seafront of Weston-super-Mare.. Weston Bay is an inlet of the Bristol Channel in North Somerset, England.. It lies between Brean Down, which is now owned by the National Trust, is rich in wildlife, history and archaeology, and has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest [1] to the south, and Worlebury Hill to the north.
Weston-super-Mare is the busiest RNLI station on the south side of the Bristol Channel; in 2011 its two lifeboats were called out 42 times. [63] Historically, the largest number of people rescued at one time was on 22 September 1884 when 40 passengers were taken off the SS Welsh Prince which got into difficulties after leaving the pier.
Weston-super-Mare is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Dan Aldridge from the Labour Party since 2024. Before then it was held since 2005 by John Penrose , a Conservative .
The present home of Weston Museum is the former industrial premises of the Weston Gaslight Company. [1] It is a Grade II listed building. [11] [7] It was designed and built by local architects Hans Fowler Price and William Jane in 1912 to house the company's stores and distribution workshops, incorporating an existing stable yard in its construction.