Wideatts Road Substation
Wideatts Road Substation is an electrical substation in Cheddar, Sedgemoor District, England. Wideatts Road Substation is situated nearby to the building Cheddar railway station, as well as near Cheddar Cricket Club Pitch.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cheddar Gorge and Cheddar railway station.
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.
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. Cheddar railway station is situated 1,100 feet southeast of Wideatts Road Substation.
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. Gough’s Cave is situated 1 mile east of Wideatts Road Substation.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Axbridge and Draycott.
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.
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 Wideatts Road Substation.
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 Wideatts Road Substation.
Wideatts Road Substation
- Type: Electrical substation
- Category: industry
- Location: Cheddar, Sedgemoor District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.27827° or 51° 16′ 42″ northLongitude
-2.78639° or 2° 47′ 11″ westOpen location code
9C3V76H7+8COpenStreetMap ID
node 13134397805
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