Mendips
The Mendips are a range of hills in northern Somerset in the south-west of the United Kingdom. The area is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hill with an elevation of 876 feet
- Description: range of limestone hills to the south of Bristol and Bath in Somerset, England
- Also known as: “Mendip Hills”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Priddy Circles and Priddy Mineries.
Priddy Circles
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Priddy Circles are a linear arrangement of four circular earthwork enclosures near the village of Priddy on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. The circles have been listed as Scheduled Ancient Monuments, and described as 'probable Neolithic ritual or ceremonial monuments similar to a henge'.
Priddy Mineries
Nature reserve
Priddy Mineries is a nature reserve previously run by the Somerset Wildlife Trust. It is in the village of Priddy, on the Mendip Hills in Somerset. The reserve lies 3 miles north of Wells and 1.5 miles east of the village of Priddy.
Eastwater Cavern
Cave
Eastwater Cavern is a cave near Priddy in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. It is also known as Eastwater Swallet. It was first excavated in April 1902 by a team led by Herbert E.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wells and Priddy.
Wells
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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. The city is dominated by the magnificent Gothic cathedral and is famous for its remarkably intact ecclesiastical quarter.
Priddy
Village
Photo: Rodw, Public domain.
Priddy is a village in Somerset, England in the Mendip Hills, close to East Harptree and 4 miles north-west of Wells. The village lies in a small hollow near the summit of the Mendip range of hills, at an elevation of 260 metres above sea-level, and has evidence of occupation since Neolithic times.
East Harptree
Village
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East Harptree is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is situated 5 miles north of Wells and 15 miles south of Bristol, on the northern slope of the Mendip Hills overlooking the Chew Valley.
Mendips
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Mendips” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تلال منديب”
- Cebuano: “Mendip Hills”
- Chinese: “門迪普丘陵”
- Chinese: “门迪普山”
- Dutch: “Mendip Hills”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تلال منديب”
- French: “collines de Mendip”
- French: “Collines de Mendip”
- French: “Mendip Hills”
- German: “Mendip Hills”
- German: “Mendips”
- Hebrew: “גבעות מנדיפ”
- Hungarian: “Mendip dombság”
- Irish: “Mendip Hills”
- Italian: “Mendip Hills”
- Japanese: “メンディップ・ヒルズ”
- Ladin: “Mendip Hills”
- Latin: “Mendippi”
- Lithuanian: “Mendipo kalvos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mendip Hills AONB”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mendip Hills”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mendip Hills”
- Norwegian: “Mendip Hills”
- Polish: “Mendip Hills”
- Polish: “Mendip”
- Polish: “Merndip Hills”
- Swedish: “Mendip Hills”
- Turkish: “Mendip Tepeleri”
- Venetian: “Mendip Hills”
- Welsh: “Bryniau Mendip”
- Welsh: “Mendip Hills”
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