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How to Find Watchet

Grid Reference
British National Grid
ST 05429 43493
Degrees
51.18281°N, 3.35444°W



 There is a car park near the small museum in the centre of Watchet, next to the harbour. The museum contains examples of locally found fossils (including an ichthyosaur skeleton) and books illustrating the fossils and strata of the area.

 Take the narrow footpath running alongside the steam rail line (with the sea on your left hand side) and follow it up onto the cliff top. After a pleasant walk (about ¼ mile) you reach a long staircase onto the beach (with a good handrail).

 Once on the beach, head generally away from the lighthouse The rocks around the lighthouse are all Triassic and unfossiliferious.

 Alternativly you can drive out of Watchet to the West on the B3191. Follow this road up and around the steep hill and then down again and on a fairly straight part of the road, you will see a camp site to the Right. Go through the car park to the bottom of the hill, park here and walk down the slope, walking West once on the beach.


 


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