Property News · February 13, 2015

Let’s move to Clevedon, Somerset


It masquerades as Broadchurch, but this elegant clifftop town overlooking the Severn estuary has ample charms of its ownWhat’s going for it? This is part one of two Let’s Move To Broadchurch specials (part two in two weeks). Don’t say I don’t have my finger on the pulse. Anyhow, when you see lawyer Marianne Jean-Baptiste scurrying into her mission control, or people exchanging significant looks across a wide high street, it isn’t Broadchurch, it isn’t even Dorset – it is Clevedon. Hill Road, to be exact, the main drag. Though Clevedon doesn’t need some much-garlanded, convoluted TV series to put it on the map. It has its pier. Not just any pier. A Grade I-listed affair, “the most beautiful pier in England”, said Sir John Betjeman. It disdains amusement arcades and candyfloss. This is a refined town, draped on its clifftop, eyeing Wales across the Bristol Channel, with leafy hills, gothic villas and one of the longest continually running cinemas in the world, more than 100 years old. Who needs murder, intrigue and David Tennant when you have a matinee at the Curzon to detain you?The case against The beach isn’t Bondi, but it’ll do: it has its own rubbly, seaweedy charm. It isn’t the best place for a wild night out, either. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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