Apex Park

The Apex Park is an informal leisure and wildlife park, created around the former clay pits — now small lakes — of the Apex Brick works. The works closed in 1966, and the park was created and opened in 1972. The park, consisting of grassland, trees and hedgerows, covers some 42 acres.
There are two main lakes: the larger, central one has an attractive hour-​glass shape and its banks are lined with rushes. There are walks around this lake with park benches, and footpaths branch off to go to Highbridge (along the line of the old railway) and to Burnham’s South Promenade, following the river bank of the River Brue (very muddy after wet weather!). There is a large car park off Marine Drive, which leads to a broad slipway into the lake. The other lake forms the park’s north west boundary and lies partly within the Haven Holiday Village.
Popular activities include BMX biking, model radio-​controlled boating, jogging (there’s a ‘trim-​trail’ with various pieces of keep-​fit apparatus) and fishing — the lakes are stocked with carp and bream. Dog obedience sessions also take place most Sunday mornings in good weather, and there’s a children’s play area and skate park.
As well as the fish, wildlife includes birds, including geese, ducks, swans and various different types of sea bird, and the hedgerows contain a variety of different types of trees and bushes, home to insect and bird life.
NB: The Highbridge Angling Association holds the fishing rights for the Apex Park. Permits can be obtained from Thyers Tackle Shop, 1A Church St, Highbridge — telephone 1 278 786 934.