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Watchet is a harbour town, civil parish and electoral ward in the English county of Somerset, with a population of 3,785. It is situated 15 miles (24 km) west of Bridgwater, 15 miles (24 kilometres) north-west of Taunton, and also 9 miles (14 km) east of Minehead. The community exists at the mouth of the Washford River on Bridgwater Bay, part of the Bristol Channel, as well as on the edge of Exmoor National Park. The initial negotiation might have gone to the Iron Age fort Daw’s Castle. It then moved to the mouth of the river and also a little harbour created, named by the celts as “Gwo Coed” implying Under the Wood. After the Saxon conquest of the area the town developed and was called Weced or Waeced and also was attacked by Vikings in the 10th century. Trade making use of the harbour slowly grew, regardless of damage during numerous serious storms, with import as well as exports of goods including those from Wansbrough Paper Mill until the 19th century when it increased with the export of iron ore, brought from the Brendon Hills using the West Somerset Mineral Railway, primarily to Newport for onward transport to the Ebbw Vale Steelworks. The West Somerset Railway also served the community and also port bringing products and also individuals from the Bristol and Exeter Railway. The iron ore profession reduced and also ceased in the early-20th century. The port continued a smaller commercial profession till 2000 when it was converted into a marina. The church is dedicated to Saint Decuman who is thought to have actually died below around 706. An early church was built near Daw’s Castle and a new church was erected in the 15th century. It has several burial places and also monoliths to Sir John Wyndham and also his family that were the lords of the chateau. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner which was written in the area is memorialized by a statue on the harbourside.