Portal:Somerset/Did you know/6

From Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives:
 * ... that Burnham-on-Sea has had three lighthouses; the Round Tower, High Lighthouse and Low lighthouse (pictured), but only the last, the smallest, is still operating?
 * ... that Weston-super-Mare's Birnbeck Pier has the longest lifeboat slipway in England?
 * ... that Simonsbath on Exmoor is the largest parish in Somerset covering 56 sqmi but only has 75 houses?
 * ... that Banwell Castle served as Area Headquarters for the barrage balloon section of the Royal Air Force during World War II?
 * ... that the serial sex offender Batman rapist has committed at least 17 attacks in Bath since 1991 and is the subject of Britain's longest-running serial rape investigation?