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Minehead is a coastal town and civil parish in Somerset, England. It lies on the south bank of the Bristol Channel, 21 miles north-west of the county town of Taunton, 12 miles from the boundary with t
View over Minehead from the west, 2009
Minehead, View from Quay, watercolour on paper by Harry Frier in 1901
Statue of Queen Anne in Wellington Square
Town Council's offices, 3 Summerland Road
Arthur C. Clarke
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Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was an English science fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
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…Richard Chorley (1927–2002), physical geographer, was born and brought up in Minehead. Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008), science fiction writer, was born in Minehead. Edward Ellicott (1768–1847), naval officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic…
Clarke in 1965
Clarke receives the Marconi International Fellowship Award from Prince Claus of the Netherlands in 1982.
Clarke at his home in Sri Lanka, 2005
Clarke's novella "The Road to the Sea" was originally published in Two Complete Science-Adventure Books in 1951 as "Seeker of the Sphinx".