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About Clevedon Pier

Clevedon Pier is a coastline wharf in the town of Clevedon, Somerset, England on the east shore of the Severn Estuary. It has been depicted by Sir John Betjeman, as "the most lovely dock in England" and was assigned a Grade I recorded working in 2001. The wharf was worked amid the 1860s to pull in visitors and give a ship port to rail travelers to South Wales. The dock is 312 m long and comprises of eight traverses upheld by steel rails secured by wooden decking, with a structure on the wharf head.
The wharf opened in 1869 and filled in as an embarkation point for oar steamer outings for precisely 100 years. Two of the ranges crumbled amid pressure testing in 1970 and pulverization was proposed, however neighborhood raising money and legacy gifts enabled the wharf to be destroyed for rebuilding and reassembled. It revived in 1989, and after ten years was granted the Pier of the Year from the National Piers Society, and a Civic Trust Award. The dock now, by and by, offers an arrival arrange for steamers and is a famous fascination for sightseers and fishermen. You can visit this place with your loved ones.

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