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MOVE TO WATCHET

‘Watchet offers a warm welcome from the entire community, an eclectic mix of people who have deep history with the town’

Watchet is a lively and dynamic harbour town, on the west Somerset coast with views of the Bristol Channel. You will find Dunster and Minehead to the west, Williton and Washford to the south and The Quantock Hills to the east. The locals say it is the people who make this town.

As you arrive in to Watchet you are greeted by the Heritage Railway, where the steam train meanders its way through the Somerset countryside bellowing with white smoke. The puffing sound is unmistakable in summer between Bishops Lydeard and Minehead, and it’s quite a breathtaking

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