Pen Hill
Pen Hill forms part of the Mendip Hills plateau in Somerset, England. The hill is located in St Cuthbert Out civil parish. The name Pen is believed to be Celtic for hill or tor.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jsommer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mendip transmitting station and Hunter’s Hole.
Mendip transmitting station
Photo: Jsommer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Mendip transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility on the summit of Pen Hill, part of the Mendip Hills range in Somerset, England, at 305 metres above sea level.
Hunter’s Hole
Cave
Hunter's Hole is a cave in the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. It is behind a pub, known as the Hunters Lodge Inn just outside Priddy where visitors can park.
Drove Cottage Henge
Residential area
Drove Cottage Henge is a scheduled monument in the Priddy parish of Somerset, England. It is located 370 metres north of Drove Cottage. The site is a ceremonial Neolithic location.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Horrington and Wells.
Horrington
Village
Photo: Mdpclark, Public domain.
Horrington is a collection of three small villages in the parish of St Cuthbert Out 1 mile or 2 miles east of Wells, Somerset, England. South Horrington is a relatively new village created in the late 1990s from the defunct Mendip Hospital that was closed in 1991.
Wells
Photo: matthewhartley369, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wells is the smallest city in England, with a population of around 10,000. It is in Somerset in the south-west of the country.
Wookey Hole
Village
Photo: Adrian and Janet Quantock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wookey Hole is a village in Somerset, England. It is the location of the Wookey Hole show caves.
Pen Hill
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,001 feet
- Description: hill in Somerset, England, UK
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: St Cuthbert Out, Mendip District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.23678° or 51° 14′ 12″ northLongitude
-2.62517° or 2° 37′ 31″ westElevation
1,001 feet (305 metres)Open location code
9C3V69PF+PWOpenStreetMap ID
node 341047657OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to French—“Pen Hill” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Pen Hill”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل پين هيل”
- French: “Pen Hill”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pen Hill”. Photo: Jsommer, CC BY-SA 3.0.