Each year the Bridgwater Town Council Christmas Calendar is a welcome addition to the promotion of our town. For the past few years we’ve featured works by local artists such as Terence Peppin and his evocative townscapes of Bridgwater, Jim Goddard and his collages of past and present images , Les Pickersgill and his artistic […]

For the third year running Bridgwater Town Council has produced a calendar to promote the town and featuring the photography and art work of local artistes. This year the images are by exciting Bridgwater photographer Terence Peppin and the design is by local company Heybelles. The Calendar is available NOW (in good time for Christmas!) […]

Carnival day sums up all that is best about Bridgwater and so what better day than this to launch the latest initiative from Bridgwater Town Council to promote the place as a tourism destination. The Blake Museum was the venue of choice  and after Mayor of Bridgwater Cllr Tony Heywood opened the box and Leader […]

The long awaited new Bridgwater Tourism Brochure was launched at Carnival weekend at a special event at Bridgwater Town Hall by Mayor Diogo Rodrigues and Town Council Leader Brian Smedley hearalding the start of a push to ‘talk Bridgwater up’. 5,000 of the brochures have been sent to tourism offices and other outlets around the […]

At a well attended meeting packed with positive energy and enthused with a ‘can do’ spirit, Bridgwater Town Council and its partners launched their new Tourism Forum, inspired by presentations from UWE students entitled ‘Thinking Big in Bridgwater’ and a talk by sales manager of the new Mercure Hotel, Emma Rathbone, which described tourism as […]