Brean Leisure Park
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| Slogan | The South West's Leading Family Destination! |
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| Location | Holiday Resort Unity, Brean, Somerset, England |
| Coordinates | 51°17′08″N 3°00′35″W / 51.285668°N 3.009664°WCoordinates: 51°17′08″N 3°00′35″W / 51.285668°N 3.009664°W |
| Owner | Holiday Resort Unity |
| Operated by | Phil Booth |
| Opened | 1946 |
| Previous names | Holiday Resort Unity |
| Operating season | March to November |
| Visitors per annum | 750,000+ per annum |
| Area | 200 acres (80.9 ha) |
| Rides | |
| Total | 30+ (T.B.C.) |
| Roller coasters | 4 |
| Website |
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Brean Leisure Park is an amusement park in the coastal resort of Brean, near Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England. Brean Lesiure Park as a whole is owned and managed by Unity Farm (which is owned by the House family) whilst the Brean theme park amusement aspect is owned by Phil Booth as of August 2014. The park covers an area of 200 acres (80.9 ha).
Open from March to November every year, the leisure park has also been a concert venue for artists such as DJ Casper,Peter Andre,Jason Donovan and The Wurzels. Sky have filmed an episode of Brainiac: Science Abuse entitled "Funfair Physics" at the park. An episode of BBC TV series Casualty was also filmed there in 2007 and again 2013. And an episode of CBBC TV series The Sparticle Mystery was filmed of the titled of the episode The FunFair.
Holiday Resort Unity is owned and operated by the House family, who are the sole owners of the 200-acre site. In 2012 they celebrated 65 years of trading.
In 1946 Albert and Marie House bought Unity Farm which is just after World War II and for the next 30 years they run the farm primarily as a dairy farm with a herd of 140 cows. They later supplied the local area with milk that was bottled on the farm. The farm grew to include a number of pigs and sheep and Richard House (the Managing Director of Brean Leisure Park and Albert and Marie's son) has fond childhood memories of his milk round and the pigs and sheep that lived on Unity Farm. Bert (Richard's brother) also had a passion for horse racing and enjoyed success with a number of winners in both flat and national hunt races.
However, as far back as 1946 camping was a very popular past time and Fry's Chocolate Factory from Bristol pitched large tents on three fields on Unity Farm for a two-week period during the summer so therefore their employees could have a holiday by the seaside such as local areas being Brean, Berrow and Burnham-on-sea. The way Holiday Resort Unity is at present age started from this very stage and it wasn't long before many groups of people including the local Boy's Brigade Troops were coming to Brean to venture and have holidays.
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