Watchet, Somerset - Ancient Mariner Statue - Market House Museum postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Watchet, Somerset - home port of the Ancient Mariner - statue commisssioned by Watchet Market House Museum Society in tribute to Samuel Taylor Coleridge who composed the Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Watchet
• Publisher:  Museum
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Watchet is a harbour town and civil parish in the English county of Somerset, with a population of 3,785.^[1] It is situated 15 miles (24 km) west of Bridgwater, 15 miles (24 km) north-west of Taunton, and 9 miles (14 km) east of Minehead. The parish includes the hamlet of Beggearn Huish. The town lies at the mouth of the Washford River on Bridgwater Bay, part of the Bristol Channel, and on the edge of Exmoor National Park.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was written whilst travelling through Watchet and the surrounding area.

Watchet is believed to be the place where Saint Decuman was killed and the 15th century, Grade I listed, Church of St Decuman is dedicated to him.^[2]

There is no sign locally of Roman occupation, but the Anglo-Saxons took Watchet from the native Britons around AD 680. Under Alfred the Great (AD 871-901) Watchet became an important Saxon port, and the site of a mint with coins found as far away as Copenhagen and Stockholm.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the early port at Watchet being plundered by Danes led by Earl Ottir (Ohtor) and a 'Hroald' (possibly Ottir's king Ragnall) in 987 and 997.^[3] The parish of Watchet was part of the Williton and Freemanners Hundred.^[4]

type=printed

city/ region=watchet

period=post-war (1945 - present)

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=continental/ modern (150x100mm)