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Somerset
Sedgemoor District

Cheddar

Cheddar is a large village, with the largest gorge and caves in Britain. It has a population of around 5,800. The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese.
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  • Type: Village with 5,200 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in Somerset, England, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Cheddar, Somerset”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cheddar Gorge and Gough’s Cave.

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is a limestone in the , 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.

Cave
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Gough's Cave is located in on the , 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.

Cave
Cox's Cave is in on the , in , England. It is open to the public as a show cave. The cave is named after mill owner George Cox who discovered it in 1837, while quarrying limestone for a new building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Axbridge and Draycott.

Town
Photo: Martin Clark, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town in , England, on the River Axe, near the southern edge of the . Its population according to the 2011 census was 2,057.

Village
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is a village in , England, neighbouring the village of Cheddar on the southern edge of the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is now the larger village in the civil parish of .

Village
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is a small village and civil parish, located at grid reference ST486501, 5 miles north-west of , in the county of . The village is on the A371 between and . is situated 2½ miles southeast of Cheddar.

Cheddar

Latitude
51.2753° or 51° 16′ 31″ north
Longitude
-2.7767° or 2° 46′ 36″ west
Population
5,200
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB CDA
Open location code
9C3V76GF+48
Open­Street­Map ID
node 304449
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2653281
Wiki­data ID
Q1019479
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Cheddar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تشيدر”
  • Arabic: “شيدر”
  • Armenian: “Չեդեր”
  • Basque: “Cheddar (Somerset)”
  • Basque: “Cheddar”
  • Belarusian: “Чэдэр”
  • Bengali: “চেডার”
  • Catalan: “Cheddar”
  • Cebuano: “Cheddar”
  • Chinese: “Cheddar”
  • Chinese: “徹達”
  • Chinese: “車打”
  • Czech: “Čedar”
  • Czech: “Cheddar”
  • Dutch: “Cheddar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شيدر”
  • Esperanto: “Cheddar”
  • Finnish: “Cheddar”
  • French: “Cheddar”
  • Georgian: “ჩედერი”
  • German: “Cheddar”
  • Greek: “Τσένταρ”
  • Gujarati: “ચેડર”
  • Hebrew: “צ’דר”
  • Icelandic: “Cheddar”
  • Irish: “Cheddar”
  • Italian: “Cheddar”
  • Japanese: “チェダー”
  • Kannada: “ಚೆಡ್ಡರ್”
  • Korean: “체다”
  • Korean: “체다르”
  • Korean: “체더”
  • Ladin: “Cheddar”
  • Latin: “Cheddar”
  • Lithuanian: “Čederas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cheddar (Somerset)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cheddar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cheddar i Somerset”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cheddar”
  • Persian: “چدار، سامرست”
  • Polish: “Cheddar”
  • Portuguese: “Cheddar”
  • Russian: “Чеддер”
  • Slovenian: “Cheddar, Somerset”
  • Slovenian: “Cheddar”
  • Spanish: “Cheddar”
  • Swedish: “Cheddar (ort)”
  • Swedish: “Cheddar, England”
  • Swedish: “Cheddar”
  • Tamil: “செட்டார்”
  • Telugu: “చెద్దర్”
  • Turkish: “Cheddar, Somerset”
  • Urdu: “چیدار”
  • Volapük: “Cheddar”
  • Welsh: “Cheddar”

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