Burrington Combe

Burrington Combe is a Carboniferous Limestone gorge near the village of Burrington, on the north side of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in North Somerset, England.

Photo: Adrian and Janet Quantock, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aveline’s Hole and Pierre’s Pot.

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.

Pierre’s Pot

Cave

Pierre's Pot is a karst cave in Burrington Combe on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. The cave was discovered in 1983 and has two main levels, the lower level being reached through an extremely tight rift.

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 Black Down.

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.

Black Down

Locality

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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.

Lower Langford

Village

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Lower Langford is a village within the civil parishes of Churchill and Burrington in the unitary authority of North Somerset, England. It is located on the western edge of the Mendip Hills about 8 miles east of Weston-super-Mare.

Burrington Combe

Type: Gorge with an elevation of 423 feet
Description: Limestone gorge in north Somerset, England
Category: landform
Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.32569° or 51° 19′ 33″ north

Longitude

-2.75285° or 2° 45′ 10″ west

Elevation

423 feet (129 metres)

Open location code

9C3V86GW+7V

GeoNames ID

6619763

Wikidata ID

Q4249919

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Burrington Combe” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Burrington Combe”
French: “Gorge de Burrington”
Japanese: “バーリントン・クーム”
Swedish: “Burrington Combe”

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