Somerset County Council closed the B3191 Cleeve Hill yesterday (12 January) after heavy rain accelerated the ongoing erosion.

Coastal road to close for foreseeable future amid erosion fears

The council carried out emergency works to stabilise the wall at Blue Anchor two years ago

The plan to save the pub and road that's crumbling into the sea

The pub was forced to temporarily stop trading back in 2018 when its garden disappeared into the sea. 

The Somerset pub teetering on the edge of a disappearing cliff

A Somerset pub, which was at risk of falling into the sea because of crumbling cliffs, is set to reopen after emergency work stabilised the coastline.

Somerset pub at risk of falling into the sea set to reopen

The owner of the former Blue Anchor pub near Watchet is delighted that local councils are to fund cliff defences that could save it from falling into the sea.

Hope for the former pub landlady living on the edge

A West Somerset pub that is dangerously close to the edge of a cliff could be saved with new coastal defence work. 

Pub at risk of falling into the sea could be protected with coastal defence work

The Blue Anchor has been open for around 500 years but is due to close at the end of the month.

Blue Anchor

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