Barrows

Places of Interest

Cheddar Gorge

Photo: Arpingstone, Public domain.

Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Cheddar, Somerset, England. The gorge is the site of the Cheddar show caves, where Great Britain's oldest complete human skeleton, Cheddar Man, estimated to be 9,000 years old, was found in 1903.

Gough’s Cave

Cave

Photo: Rwendland, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Gough's Cave is located in Cheddar Gorge on the Mendip Hills, in Cheddar, Somerset, England. The cave is 115 m deep and is 3.405 km long, and contains a variety of large chambers and rock formations.

Cheddar railway station

Building

Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cheddar railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Cheddar, Somerset, England. The station had substantial goods traffic based on the locally-grown strawberries, which led to the line's alternative name as The Strawberry Line.

Places in the Area

Axbridge

Town

Photo: Martin Clark, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Axbridge is a town in Somerset, England, on the River Axe, near the southern edge of the Mendip Hills. Its population according to the 2011 census was 2,057. Axbridge is situated 1½ miles west of Barrows.

Draycott

Village

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

Draycott is a village in Somerset, England, neighbouring the village of Cheddar on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is now the larger village in the civil parish of Rodney Stoke. Draycott is situated 2 miles southeast of Barrows.

Rowberrow

Hamlet

Photo: Rodw, Public domain.

Rowberrow is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Shipham in the Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. Rowberrow is situated 3 miles north of Barrows.

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