Weston Bampfylde, a parish 1 m.  S. of Sparkford.  Its little church has a W. octagonal tower on a square base.  Within the building should be noticed (1) the rood staircase, which has been thrown open; (2) the Norm. font with cable mouldings; (3) the two squints.

Weston-in-Gordano, a village 3 m.  N.E. of Clevedon, on the Portishead road.  Its little church is well worth inspection.  The tower (with a pyramidal top) is said to be E.E., and is placed on the S. side of the church (rather an exceptional position in this county).  The most interesting features are (1) indications of a gallery over the S. porch (intended to be used by choristers on Palm Sunday); (2) holy water stoup within S. door; (3) curious 13th-cent. stone reading-desk or pulpit in S. wall; (4) “Miserere” seats in the choir, with their quaint carvings (attributed to the 14th cent.); (5) Jacobean oak pulpit; (6) Norm. font; (7) sanctus bell-cot; (8) fine 15th-cent. tomb (with French epitaph) of “Rycharde Persyvale”; (9) piscina in S. wall.  There is an altar-tomb in the churchyard, said to belong to a Percival of the time of Richard I.

WESTON-SUPER-MARE, a popular seaside resort on the Bristol Channel, 139 m. from London and 20 m.  S.W. from Bristol, with a population of nearly 20,000.  A loop thrown from the G.W.R. main line at Worle enables the traveller to reach the place without the inconvenience of changing trains.  The town lies in the entrance of a crescent-like indentation which the sea has scooped out of the flats that intervene between the conspicuous promontories of Worle Hill on the N. and Brean Down on the S. The rise of the town has been recent and rapid.  A century has transformed it from a mere handful of fishermen’s cottages into one of the most popular resorts of the West.  The bay faces due W. and commands an uninterrupted view of the Atlantic.  Besides this advantageous geographical position, the town possesses all the qualifications of a first-class watering-place except the one essential feature of the water.  At ebb tide the sea beats a hasty retreat across the bay, and leaves as its substitute many acres of dimpled mud—­a peculiarity which has caused the frivolous to nickname it Weston-super-Mud.  But enterprising Weston has turned even this gibe to advantage by claiming that the ozone which exhales from the ooze is one of the chief elements in its salubrity.  Moreover the estrangement between the sea and the shore is by no means permanent.  At high tides the spray breaks over the esplanade in showers, and under the stimulus of a brisk westerly breeze these demonstrations of the “sad sea waves” are quite lively.  Weston’s advantages have been exploited to the full by its townspeople.  A broad and well-paved esplanade, 2-1/2 m. long, encircles the shore.  Two piers are thrust out into the sea—­the older one, with twin landing-stages, connects the N. end of the town with the islet of Birnbeck; the new one runs out from the centre of the parade