Weston-super-Mare, a fashionable watering-place of Somersetshire, on the Bristol Channel, 20 miles SW. of Bristol. Grown from a fishing-village since 1805, it is sheltered by rocky, fir-clad Worle Hill (306 feet); commands a splendid view over to Wales; and has an esplanade (begun 1825) 3 miles long, a promenade pier (1867) 1040 feet long, the Prince Consort gardens, a sanatorium, potteries, &c. Pop. (1851) 4034; (1891) 15,873.
Weston-super-Mare
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 619
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