Brean peninsular to Heybridge
Distance 13.50 Miles
Time 4:40 minutes
Elevation Gain 556 Feet
Total days walking 59 (Excluding The SWCP sections)
Total mileage 1387.02 (Including The SWCP sections)
we are committed to carrying on with our coast path. We [I] made an executive decision to walk to Minehead where it all began back in 2017
Having now walked from Minehead to Hunstanton in North Norfolk I thought it would be good to jump back to the Bristol channel.
Friday 8th March 2024
We took the train from Epsom Downs station to Victoria, followed by a tube to Paddington Station & the GWR to Taunton in Somerset with our last local train to Heybridge & Burnham.
A good journey down with a short walk to our accommodation for two nights.
Saturday 9th March
Thankfully a dry morning with a forecast of rain grey clouds overhead.
Lesley's makes up a flask of coffee & for some unknown reason drinks it straight from the flask scalding her lip & chin, Not a good start to the day. A cold compress to take away the heat but a red mark on chin & lip is not a good sign!
We walk to the bus stop & catch the bus as far as possible towards Brean point walking the remaining mile & 3/4 to the start of our walk. Brean peninsular is a beautiful national trust area, arriving we scale the 224 steps up onto the headland & walk to the Fort at the end of the peninsula, a Victorian fortification built to protect the Bristol channel. (Although there has been a fortification here long before the Victorian update) Fantastic views looking back towards Weston-super-Mare with its grand pier.
After a look around the Fort we head back along the lower track back to the 224 steep steps & arriving at the NT Coffee shop for coffee & cake.
After cake it's on to the beach heading back to Burnham-on-sea, the tide is low leaving vast sandy beaches nice hard sand which is a pleasant surface to walk on.
The peninsula steadily getting smaller in our sight as we head away from it, finally disappearing as the coast curves around, This will not be the last sighting of Brean peninsular!
Apparently the sun is being harvested by Aliens so hopefully by reading this will stop it happening.
(well so the locals think)
Arriving in Burnham-on-sea its lunch time and we spy a weatherspoon pub, so in we go, a good pint & some food & we are ready for the last few miles back to Heybridge leaving the Bristol channel we now walk alongside the river Brue arriving in Heybridge, it starts to rain but only lightly as we leave the trail & head back to the Hotel. All in all another good day with a few more miles knocked of the England Coast path.
The lip Update.
The cool wind has helped but its now swelling still red & sore, Well what did you expect!
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