Bridgwater Arts Centre was the venue for the first post-war meeting of the Congres Internationaux d ' Architecture Moderne in 1947.

* Jean Rees, artist and co-founder of the Bridgwater Arts Centre.

Secondary schools in nearby Bridgwater include: Robert Blake Science College, Brymore School, Chilton Trinity Technology College, East Bridgwater Community School which was previously known as Sydenham School and is a Performing and Visual Arts College, and Haygrove School which has specialist Language College status.

In 1946 she co-founded the Bridgwater Arts Centre and later became its Chairman.

A retrospective exhibition entitled " A Vision of Landscape and Light: Jean Rees Hon RWA 1914-2004 " was staged at Bridgwater Arts Centre and Royal West of England Academy during 2006, receiving enthusiastic praise from several hundred visitors.

East Bridgwater Sports Centre offers badminton courts, outside football pitches, squash courts and a fitness room.

The charities National Assesmsment Centre is based at Knowle Hall, Puriton, just outside the town of Bridgwater, in Somerset.

A Parliamentarian attempt to send a relieving force under Lieutenant General Middleton was defeated at Bridgwater in Somerset.

After the Norman invasion the land was given to Walter of Douai, hence becoming known variously as Burgh-Walter, Brugg-Walter and Brigg-Walter, eventually corrupted to Bridgwater.

William Briwere was granted the lordship of the Manor of Bridgwater by John of England in 1201, and founded Bridgwater Friary.

Bridgwater Castle was a substantial structure built in Old Red Sandstone, covering a site of 8 or 9 acres ( 32, 000 to 36, 000 m² ).

During the 11th century Second Barons ' War against Henry III, Bridgwater was held by the barons against the King.

Other charters were granted by Henry III in 1227 ( confirmed in 1318, 1370, 1380 ), which gave Bridgwater a gild merchant which was important for the regulation of trade allowing gild members to trade freely in the town, and to impose payments and restrictions upon others.

When there was a redistribution of Parliamentary seats to take effect at the 1885 general election, a new county division of Bridgwater was created.

In the 1685 Monmouth Rebellion, the rebel James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth was proclaimed King on the Cornhill in Bridgwater and in other local towns.

Further Education is provided by Bridgwater College which was formerly Bridgwater Technical School.

Bridgwater was chosen as the location as it was in the centre of Somerset.

Horror writer and film journalist Kim Newman was educated at Dr Morgan's school in Bridgwater, and set his 1999 experimental novel Life's Lottery in a fictionalised version of the town ( Sedgwater ).

A sailor who had sailed " from Bridgwater with bricks " and found " There was lice in that bunk in Bridgwater " features in James Joyce's Ulysses ( Chapter 16 ).

The first pool, in Old Taunton Road, was replaced by the Bridgwater Lido on Broadway, opened in 1960 by Princess Alexandra.

* Admiral Robert Blake was born in Bridgwater, and attended the local grammar school ( Bridgwater Grammar School For Boys ).

* Sir Paul Dukes was born in Bridgwater, an alumnus of Caterham School, and went on to be the premier SIS agent in pre-revolution Russia.

The GWR main line remained incomplete during the construction of the Box Tunnel, which was ready for trains on 30 June 1841, after which trains ran the from Paddington through to Bridgwater.

These schemes followed the approximate route eventually taken by the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal, but the canal was instead built as part of a plan to link Bristol to Taunton by waterway.

The Bridgwater and Taunton Canal is a canal in the south-west of England between Bridgwater and Taunton, opened in 1827 and linking the River Tone to the River Parrett.

When the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal was opened in 1827 it joined the River Parrett by a lock at Huntworth, where a basin was constructed, but in 1841 the canal was extended to a floating harbour in Bridgwater, and the Huntworth link was filled in.

In 1926 the Bridgwater Beam Wireless Station was opened north east of the town.

North Petherton is situated on one of the historic communication routes through Somerset, and a turnpike through the town was opened between Bridgwater and Taunton in the 1730s.

In 1941, a Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Bridgwater, an explosives production unit, was opened mid-way between Puriton and the adjacent village of Woolavington.

The Bridgwater and Taunton Canal opened in 1827, which provided an easier route than the river, and protracted legal battles followed over ownership of the river and water rights for the canal.

The building of the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal, which opened in 1827, directly affected the River Tone Navigation, as it provided a more direct route between Taunton and Bridgwater.

The station was opened as " Highbridge " on 14 June 1841, when the Bristol and Exeter Railway opened its broad gauge line as far as Bridgwater.

The Bridgwater and Taunton Canal had opened in 1827, making navigation from Taunton to Bridgwater easier than on the River Tone.

With the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal having opened in 1827, there was further initiative to link Chard to it, and James Green carried out a survey in 1831.

The Bridgwater and Taunton Canal also ran though the village, when it opened in 1827.

Bridgwater is located on the major communication routes through South West England.

Bridgwater is situated, on the edge of the Somerset Levels, in level and well-wooded country, having to the north the Mendip range and on the west the Quantock hills.

Bridgwater is located between two junctions of the M5 motorway and Bridgwater railway station is on the main railway line between Bristol and Taunton.

William Briwere also went on to found the Franciscan Bridgwater Friary in the town.

The first bombs fell on Bridgwater on 24 August 1940, destroying houses on Old Taunton Road, and three men, three women and one child were killed.

Nearing Bridgwater on the M5 motorway it is possible to see the Willow Man sculpture, a striding human figure constructed from willow, sometimes called the Angel of the South ( see also Angel of the North ).

Bridgwater Fair normally takes place in September — it starts on the last Wednesday in September and lasts four days.

The canal originally terminated at a basin at Huntworth, to the east of Bridgwater, but was later extended to a floating harbour on its western edge.

Henry Phillpotts, D. D., Bishop of Exeter, was born on 6 May 1778 at Bridgwater, Somerset, England, the son of John Phillpotts, a factory owner, innkeeper, auctioneer and land agent to the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral.

The village falls within the Non-metropolitan district of Sedgemoor, which was formed on April 1, 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Bridgwater Rural District, which is responsible for local planning and building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism.

Becoming hemmed in at Bridgwater on 3 July, he ordered his troops to fortify the town.

The Civil parish of North Petherton includes the villages of North Newton ( on the route of the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal ) and Northmoor Green ( also known as Moorland ) in the Somerset Levels, as well as a number of other smaller settlements.

The village falls within the Non-metropolitan district of Sedgemoor, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Bridgwater Rural District, which is responsible for local planning and building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism.

This first meeting had been dominated by people from Minehead, Wiveliscombe and Bridgwater but, on 1 August 1856, a second meeting was held in Taunton.

Bridgwater Bay is on the Bristol Channel, north of Bridgwater in Somerset, England at the mouth of the River Parrett and the end of the River Parrett Trail.