Black Down
Black Down is the highest hill in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, in south-western England. Black Down lies just a few miles eastward of the Bristol Channel at Weston-super-Mare, and provides a view over the Chew Valley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hill with an elevation of 1,056 feet
- Description: highest hill in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Black Down, Somerset” and “Blackdown”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Aveline’s Hole and Charterhouse Cave.
Aveline’s Hole
Cave
Photo: Rodw, Public domain.
Aveline's Hole is a cave at Burrington Combe in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. The earliest scientifically dated cemetery in Britain, 10,200 and 10,400 years old, was found at Aveline's Hole, constituting the largest assemblage of Mesolithic human remains found in Britain.
Charterhouse Cave
Cave
Charterhouse Cave, on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, is the deepest cave in southern England.
Goatchurch Cavern
Cave
Photo: Goatchurch, Public domain.
Goatchurch Cavern is a cave on the edge of Burrington Combe in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burrington and Blagdon.
Burrington
Village
Photo: Rodw, Public domain.
Burrington is a small village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is situated in the unitary authority of North Somerset, just off the A368 between Blagdon and Churchill.
Blagdon
Village
Photo: Rodw, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Blagdon is a village and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Somerset, within the unitary authority of North Somerset, in England. It is located in the Mendip Hills, a recognised Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Blagdon is situated 1½ miles northeast of Black Down.
Black Down
- Category: landform
- Location: Priddy, Mendip District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Black Down” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Black Down”
- Cebuano: “Blackdown”
- Dutch: “Black Down”
- Dutch: “Blackdown”
- French: “Black Down”
- Latin: “Black Down (Somersetensis)”
- Latin: “Black Down”
- Swedish: “Black Down”
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