To the power of Severn

Brean, Bristol Channel As we walked the sand towards Burnham, we made out a strange, black shape in the bay

Earlier in the year, our church meeting had to be moved from a farm out on the marsh to higher ground in the village because of flooding. But, generally speaking, we in southeast Somerset, unlike folk down on the watery levels or up on the bleaker Mendips, are fortunate not to be too often seriously threatened by the weather or reminded of the force of the elements.

But Brean, on the shore of the Bristol Channel, is a different world - one of wide spaces open to the sky and swept by powerful tides.

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