• The « super » part of Weston-super-Mare is medieval Latin. Super (with small s) means on or above, and mare is Latin for sea.
  • The Severn Estuary has one of the largest tidal ranges in the world, second only to the Bay of Fundi in Canada.
  • The transatlantic cable, which carried telegraph messages between Britain and America, washed ashore on Weston-super-Mare beach. It was of such strategic importance in the First World War sentries were posted in the town to guard it.
  • Arthur Stanley Edington – who ‘proved Einstein right’ – grew up in Weston-super-Mare. He was an astrophysicist who was given his first telescope by his school teacher in Weston-super-Mare. He later measured the distortion of light during a solar eclipse proving a main tenet of Einstein’s relativity theory.
  • Banksy, the well-known street artist from Bristol, held the world famous exhibition called Dismaland in the Tropicana on Weston-super-Mare’s sea front.
  • Brad Pitt was seen in Weston-super-Mare. He was there to visit Dismaland.