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Portishead.

A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in North Somerset district, Somerset, England, on the Bristol Channel (OS grid ref ST4676).

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name/pɔːtɪsˈhɛd/
  1. A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in North Somerset district, Somerset, England, on the Bristol Channel (OS grid ref ST4676).

Where this word comes from

From the genitive singular of Old English port (“harbor”), portes + hēafod (“head”), meaning "the harbor headland".

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