Since 1974, Minehead has been administered by the West Somerset District Council. A Town Council was number one begun around 1983. Since 1991, Minehead has been twinned with St. Berthevin, a small town close to the regional centre of Laval in the Mayenne département of France.

Tourist attractions

A town's major tourer attraction is Butlins holiday camp. More attractions include: a old railway station of the West Somerset Railway (a railway line ends on this button); the town's independent decorative park, polish off Blenheim Road; and a Minehead & West Somerset Golf Club, Somerset's oldest golf club, established in 1882. There are the kind of sailing and wind surfing options, in addition to the common beach activities.

A single popular ancient local tradition involves a Hobby Horse, which takes to the streets on the eve of the foremost of Might both season, by using accompanying musicians and rival horses, for four years. the 1st of Can has been a festival day around Minehead since 1465.

A town is the starting point of the [http://www.swcp.org.uk/ Southwest Coast Path] National Trail, a united states's yearn long-few feet away countryside walking trail.

Environment & geology

A town is overlooked by Northward Hill, & is just about Exmoor National Park. A drop exposures about Minehead's shoreline may be spectacular & [http://www.ukfossils.co.uk/sec082a.htm fossils ] come studied.

Within 1999 much of Minehead's famous sandlike beach was washed away around the severe storm; the erosion existence driven as an unexpected side-burden of a £13-million Environment Professional sea defence design. a town has been a popular seaside resort since the 1850s, and touristry employs 60-percent of the local manpower. The epa Professional so experienced to replenish 320,000 all about of mulct sifted beach sand, at a prices to the two of £2.Four million. A town's fresh coastal defences and flood defence officially opened in 2001, and a fresh beach is said to become better than a old 1.

Famous people

Seven of the rebels of the 1685 Monmouth Rebellion lived in Minehead.

A wooded bluffs above Minehead feature when a Hermit's abode.... "in that wood which slopes down to the sea", around Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A poet lived nearby, at Nether Stowey (between Bridgwater and Minehead). He & Wordsworth (who lived nearby at Alfoxden) would often roam a hills & coast in hanker nighttime walks; leading to local gossip that it were 'spies' for the French. The food and drug administration sent an professional to investigate, however observed it were, indeed, "mere poets".

Minehead is the birth place of science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke (born in Blenheim Road, 1917).

Several famed entertainers keep close at hand worked at Butlins holiday camp, which is easily known for its survive amusement.

Nick Partridge OBE, was born & raised in the town. He was a Chief Executive of The Terrence Higgins Trust, and the key candidate in HIV & AIDS.