Burrowbridge is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the River Parrett and the A361 road on the edge of the Somerset Levels. It is located 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of Bridgwater, and has a population of 508.
The bridge over the River Parrett
Burrowbridge, Somerset taken from Burrow Mump during flooding in Feb 2014
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