The largest park in Portishead, with at is centre a century-old artificial lake. It also hosts the Portishead cricket club.
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Pebble and grass beach surrounded by a salt marsh, with views on the Welsh coastline.
Open air heated swimming pool kept at a comfortable 28°C. Only open during summer months.
Battery Point Lighthouse
Lighthouse designed by the Chance Brothers of Smethwick, built as a 9-m-tall black pyramid on a concrete base in 1931 overlooking the marshes. It had been equipped with a 2000-kg fog bell cast by Gillet & Johnston of Croydon in 1938, but the bell was removed in 1998 because of structural concerns. It is now installed in Wyndham Way Close very near to High St.
Grassland covering a limestone ridge that was the location of a coastal gun battery during the Second World War to protect the Severn estuary from naval invasion by axis forces. The fossils, folds and faults in the area are of geological interest.
Marina in the re-purposed dock of a coal terminal linked to electric power plants demolished in the early 1980s. Nowadays an example of gentrification, nothing is left of its industrial heritage and the marina is surrounded by low rise residential housing blocks.
Church built in 1320 and rebuilt in the 14th and 15th centuries in a Gothic style. It has a garden and churchyard hosting the war graves of 3 Royal Navy sailors and an airman who died during the Second World War. With its 29-m-tall four-stage tower and set back buttresses and a pierced parapet, the church is a prominent landmark.