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Bridgwater

With an arts centre, the town plays host to the Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival. Covering an (32,000 to 36,000 m²) 8 or 9 acre site, Bridgwater Castle was a substantial structure in Old Red Sandstone. Until the Port of Bridgwater was created in 1348, Bridgwater was part of the Port of Bristol covering 80 miles (130 km) of the Somerset coast line, from Devon border to the mouth of River Axe.

An average of 3,600 ships per year entering the port, shipping to Bridgwater expanded with the Bridgwater Docks construction, and between 1885 and 1880 reached a peak. Remains a centre for manufacturing, Bridgwater was Somerset's leading town that is industrial. It became the Bridgwater Engineering Company Limited in 1873, but failed in 1878.

On the line from Bristol to Taunton is Bridgwater station. Opened on 10 October 1946, the first arts centre in the UK with financial assistance from the newly established Arts Council of England was the Bridgwater Arts Centre. Best known for the "Carnival of Guy Fawkes at Bridgwater" that is illuminated that from overseas and around the country attracts around 150,000 people is Bridgwater.

A football club at Fairfax Park is Bridgwater Town F.C. A Somerset historic civil parish and market town is Bridgwater. Mentioned in the earlier Chronicle of Anglo-Saxons dating from around 800, and in the Domesday Book, owing its trade centre origin to its mouth of the chief river position in Somerset is Bridgwater.

In the House of Commons of the Parliament, a county constituency represented is Bridgwater and West Somerset. Never involved in the slave trade unlike Bristol, Bridgwater was the first town to petition the government to ban it in 1797. One of three that in the search for the Northwest Passage by Martin Frobisher in 1577 took part was Bridgwater ship the Emanuel.

Brymore Academy, Chilton Trinity School, Robert Blake Science College, East Bridgwater Community School which is a Performing and Visual Arts College and as Sydenham School was known previously, and Haygrove School which has status of a college that is language specialist include schools. 1920s formed, Bridgwater Hockey Club at Burnham-on-Sea play their matches.