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Skip To Main Content. Site Search. Call direct on: Tel Book Tickets Online. About Steep Holm is a privately owned island in the Bristol Channel and is managed by a small group of Trustees.

It lies about five miles 8 km offshore from the seaside resort of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset. Although relatively close to areas of high population, and sitting in the middle of a busy shipping channel, Steep Holm is isolated by brisk tidal currents and a difficult landing place. Despite and indeed because of its isolation, Steep Holm is a rewarding place to visit, with visitors welcome on scheduled trips. It is a nature reserve and a Site of Special Scientific Interest famed for its beautiful, May flowering, wild peony.

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The island is owned by the Kenneth Allsop Memorial Trust, a charity which took over the administration of Steep Holm in in memory of the broadcaster and naturalist Kenneth Allsop , and purchased it in Visits can be made to the island.

The trust runs day-long boat trips from Weston-super-Mare. One barrack block is in use to provide visitor facilities. Military Wiki Explore. Popular pages. Project maintenance. Register Don't have an account? Flat Holm was first inhabited in the Bronze Age - as shown by artefacts found on the island - but the first recorded occupier was St Cadoc in the 6th Century AD who used the island as a retreat for quiet meditation.

Vikings and Saxons, monks and silver miners have all occupied Flat Holm at some point, while brandy and tea smugglers used its rocky coves to store contraband. In later years, Victorian soldiers were based there and a series of gun emplacements were built to fortify the island after Queen Victoria became concerned about the strength of the French Navy.

Four of the battery sites and a gun pit remain on the island. In the s, the Marquis of Bute - who then owned the island - leased some of his land to the Cardiff Corporation for a hospital to deal with an outbreak of cholera among sailors arriving in south Wales.

It is understood the last patient to be cremated on the island was at the end of the 19th Century. Following these dark times came the pioneering work of Italian inventor Marconi, who famously used the island to send the first wireless message across the water in However, it wasn't long before the military returned to the island when World War II broke out.