Kite-buggies in action at Uphill near Weston-super-Mare.

Kite-buggy racing on the beach at Uphill near Weston-super-Mare on the North Somerset coast.  Brean Down is on the left, Steep Holm in the centre and the Welsh Coast can be seen on the horizon to the right.
 

The village of Uphill is at the mouth of the River Axe and was charmingly described, in 1934, by Maxwell Fraser in his guidebook Somerset (Great Western Railway Company): "Uphill, the last of the true Mendip villages, lies at the foot of the hill beside the seashore, with its old church 100 ft. above.  Originally a Norman building altered in the Perpendicular period, it is now practically disused, but the view from the churchyard is so inspiring it is well worth the trouble of the steep climb.  Immediately below is the tiny harbour which probably marks the site of the Roman harbour of Axium from which the produce of the Roman lead mines was exported.  The old Roman road has been traced from this hill for 55 miles across the Mendips to Old Sarum near Salisbury, and the grass-clad breeze-swept knoll is a remote and lonely little world which pricks the imagination to conjure up visions of the days when the legions swung down from the hills, and the harbour was swarming with men loading the ships under the efficient direction of their overseers."