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
Somerset is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel, Gloucestershire, and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east and the north-east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. The largest settlement is the city of Bath, and the county town is Taunton.
Image: Somerset Levels from Glastonbury Tor (27941775545) (cropped)
Image: St Mary the Virgin, Bruton, Somerset
Image: Puente Pulteney, Bath, Inglaterra, 2014 08 12, DD 51
Palladian Pulteney Bridge at Bath
