Burnham-on-Sea is a seaside town in Somerset, England, at the mouth of the River Parrett, upon Bridgwater Bay. Burnham was a small fishing village until the late 18th century when it began to grow because of its popularity as a seaside resort.
The beaches and low wooden pile lighthouse
Bandstand on the Esplanade, 2009
Aerial view of Burnham-on-Sea.
The beach and pier, 2016
The River Parrett flows through the counties of Dorset and Somerset in South West England, from its source in the Thorney Mills springs in the hills around Chedington in Dorset. Flowing northwest through Somerset and the Somerset Levels to its mouth at Burnham-on-Sea, into the Bridgwater Bay nature reserve on the Bristol Channel, the Parrett and its tributaries drain an area of 660 square miles (1,700 km2) – about 50 per cent of Somerset's land area, with a population of 300,000.
River Parrett near Burrowbridge
Aerial view of the mouth of the River Parrett as it flows into Bridgwater Bay
The river near Pawlett showing Hinkley Point power stations A and B
The river near the A303 at South Petherton