Bryher (grid reference SV880150) is the smallest of the five inhabited islands of the Isles of Scilly. It is home to a population of 92 (census of 2001). The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... The Isles of Scilly (Cornish: Ynysek Syllan) form an archipelago of islands off the southwesternmost tip of England. ...

It lies to the west of Tresco, and is separated from that island by the Tresco Channel. Off the southern end of Bryher is the uninhabited island of Samson. The view from the helicopter leaving Tresco Tresco, UK, is the second largest island of the Isles of Scilly. ...

Hell Bay, Bryher

Factual Bryher

• Bryher is Celtic for ‘Place of Hills’. There are a number of hills on the island, including Watch Hill, a viewpoint, and Samson Hill at the southern end of the island.
• Scenery on the island includes sandy beaches at Rushy Bay and Hell Bay.
• The Hell Bay Hotel is actually located at Stinkingborth Bay (probably so called because of the smell of seaweed).
• Bryher has an area of 327 acres - just over half a square mile (1.3 km²).
• At low tide, mudflats are exposed in the Tresco Channel.
• The Great Pool is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
• In the north of the island are the Fraggle Rock Cafe and Bryher Stores.
• Golden Eagle studio of the artist Richard Pearce.
• In the centre of the island is Bar Quay, which was built in 1990 by the television programme Challenge Anneka.
• Local activities include sailing, scuba and watching wildlife.
• Bryher has recently become a popular girls name in West Cornwall.
• Annie Winnifred Ellerman, daughter of the shipping magnate Sir John Ellerman, took the name of this island, Bryher, as her pseudonym.

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Fictional Bryher

• Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo. A film version, called When the Whales Came, was made on location in 1989 starring Helen Mirren, Helen Pearce, Paul Scofield and David Suchet.
• Hell Bay by Sam Llewellyn

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External links

• Bryher web site
• Artist Richard Pearce lives on Bryher
• Webcam
• Hell Bay Hotel is located adjacent to the Great Pool.

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