Watchet

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Part of the marina at Watchet

Watchet is a harbour town in Somerset, England on the edge of Exmoor. In the poem Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the ancient mariner set sail from Watchet.

Watchet is a station on the West Somerset Railway and is the place where Saint Decuman was killed. Cleeve Abbey lies a short distance away.

In the mid 1860s two independent railways terminated at Watchet. The West Somerset Mineral Railway ran down from the iron mines on the Brendon Hills, and the West Somerset Railway came up from the Bristol & Exeter Railway at Norton Fitzwarren. Both lines made extensive use of the harbour at Watchet.

Other usage

Watchet is also a pale, greenish blue colour name from the sixteenth century.

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