Portal:Somerset/Did you know/6
From Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives:
- ... that Burnham-on-Sea has had three lighthouses; the Round Tower, High Lighthouse and Low lighthouse (pictured), but only the last, the smallest, is still operating?
- ... that Weston-super-Mare's Birnbeck Pier has the longest lifeboat slipway in England?
- ... that Simonsbath on Exmoor is the largest parish in Somerset covering 56 square miles (145.0 km2) but only has 75 houses?
- ... that Banwell Castle served as Area Headquarters for the barrage balloon section of the Royal Air Force during World War II?
- ... that the serial sex offender Batman rapist has committed at least 17 attacks in Bath since 1991 and is the subject of Britain's longest-running serial rape investigation?