Clevedon

Clevedon lies on the Severn estuary 15 miles south of Bristol. The main body of the town is situated inland but there is a pleasant promenade and a pier, where in the summer months you can catch a ferry to Bristol, Gloucester, Wales or Devon. If you prefer to stay on dry land, checkout Clevedon Court, a 14th century manor house where William Makepeace Thackeray wrote much of 'Vanity Fair'.

Clevedon Pier is the only grade one listed pier in the country, it was built from scrape metal and finished in 1869, it stretches 225 metres into the powerful Bristol Channel.

Generally the area is good for walking and there is a Poets Walk around the headland, so called because Tennyson and Coleridge are said to have walked it and been inspired by the sights. For a longer and more demanding walk you could either follow the hills to the north, which stretch to Portishead or the hills that run towards Bristol.