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It was Abraham Darby's partners, Quaker merchants from Bristol, who put up most of the £3500 needed to establish Coalbrookdale Ironworks.

The south front of St Donat's overlooks the Bristol Channel, and a series of terraced gardens lead down to the shore.

Pictured here in really what was the twilight of its golden age, the pier had long been the point of embarkation for daytrips to destinations along the Bristol Channel.

The river rises high in these hills, but only a few miles from the Bristol Channel.

In 1887 Peter and Alexander Campbell decided to relocate their excursion steamer business from Scotland to the relatively untapped Bristol Channel, where they soon came to dominate the market.

In World War II the castle was the HQ for Pluto - Pipe Line Under The Ocean - an operation which ran fuel from Liverpool through Wales and across the Bristol Channel and eventually supplied the fleet

Built in 1947, the Bristol Queen was considered to be the ultimate in paddle steamer design, and was never to be replaced.

The Grand Western Canal was part of a grandiose scheme to link the Bristol and English Channels between Taunton and Exeter.

St John the Baptist stands high above the Bristol Channel on windswept Countisbury Common.

Sailing ships from Bristol once plied up and down its channel and berthed at the town wharves.

These were a feature of the Bristol Channel in Victorian times, and a preserved one still visits occasionally today.

If the billowing empty deck chair is any guide, the wind is whistling up the Bristol Channel and through the Promenade Gardens.

It has been used over the centuries as a landmark buy ships in the Bristol Channel.

Over the hills in the distance lie Ilfracombe and the Bristol Channel.

In the foreground on the beach is a Punch and Judy show, an evergreen attraction which here appears in danger of being swept away by the boisterous Bristol Channel swell.

If the billowing empty deck chair is any guide, the wind is whistling up the Bristol Channel and through the Promenade Gardens.

by enabling coal from the Forest of Dean to be transported across to Sharpness, from where it was shipped inland up the canal to Gloucester and the Midlands, or exported by sea via the Bristol Channel

At Stourport, cargoes were transhipped between Staffs & Worcs narrowboats and Severn trows - these were sailing barges that operated to and from the Bristol Channel ports.

Portleven was noted for building pilchard drivers and Bristol Channel pilot cutters.

Along the latter runs the wide Esplanade, with extensive views across the Bristol Channel.

From Tenby, Lundy is obscured by Caldey Island (which we see here off shore), but beyond lies Lundy, some 25 miles off and clearly visible on a clear day, rising 400 feet up out of the Bristol Channel

Although often referred to as a storm, one school of thought maintains that this was in fact a tsunami caused by an earthquake in the Bristol Channel.

Weston-super-Mare sits at the edge of the Bristol Channel, opposite the nature reserve island of Steepholm.

Weston-super-Mare sits at the edge of the Bristol Channel, opposite the nature reserve island of Steepholm.