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The town lies in the entrance of a crescent-like indentation which the sea has scooped out of the flats that intervene between the conspicuous promontories of Worle Hill on the N. and Brean Down on the S. The rise of the town has been recent and rapid. A century has transformed it from a mere handful of fishermen's cottages into one of the most popular resorts of the West.
Now it need not be said that on the next day I did go, landing in the early morning under the ancient walled camp of Worle, which the Eastern traders made when they used to come for our Mendip metals; and there I hired a horse and rode homeward, sorely longing for my good skew-bald steed, which stood in a Roman stable at Caerleon.
Woodspring Priory (formerly Worspring, and perhaps containing the same element as Worle) is about 5 m. N. of Weston, and is best reached from Kewstoke, either by the shore as far as Sand Point, or by a lane that leaves (L.) the road to Worle. It was a priory of Austin canons, who were established here in 1210 by William Courtenay, whose mother was the daughter of Reginald Fitzurse, one of the murderers of Thomas
And I need not tell of that time of preparation, which seemed long to me; but at last we sailed across the still sea from Worle to Caerleon my father, and my cousin, and half a dozen others of our friends for word had gone and come from Jefan by the fishers of the Parrett river, and he would welcome all whom we would bring with us. "Make it as good a wedding as you may," was his word to me.
The neighbouring hamlet of Tivington possesses a vaulted 15th-cent. chapel, with a priest's house attached. A fine view of Dunkery and the vale of Porlock is obtained from here. Wootton, North, a village 2 m. The church has a low W. tower, possessing one pre-Reformation bell. The porch contains a curious stoup; the font is Norm. Worle, a village 2-1/2 m. E. of Weston-super-Mare. Worlebury Camp.
There is an altar-tomb in the churchyard, said to belong to a Percival of the time of Richard I. WESTON-SUPER-MARE, a popular seaside resort on the Bristol Channel, 139 m. from London and 20 m. S.W. from Bristol, with a population of nearly 20,000. A loop thrown from the G.W.R. main line at Worle enables the traveller to reach the place without the inconvenience of changing trains.
In the case of some of the finest towers the staircase is wisely suppressed before reaching the summit. Spires are comparatively rare, but they occur at E. Brent, Congresbury, Bridgwater, Croscombe, Yatton, Pitminster, Castle Cary, Frome, Worle, Whatley, Porlock.
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