Gough’s Cave
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.Photo: Rwendland, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Cave
- Description: cave of Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Gough’s Cave, Cheddar Gorge”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cheddar Gorge and White Hart Inn.
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.
White Hart Inn
Pub
Photo: Ian Rob, CC BY-SA 2.0.
White Hart Inn is a pub, which is situated 1,500 feet west of Gough’s Cave.
Fairlands Middle School
School
Fairlands Middle School is a coeducational middle school with roughly 522 pupils aged between 9 and 13 in 2012, located in Cheddar, Somerset, England. The school, which was established in 1976, is a middle-deemed-secondary school, meaning that it takes pupils of secondary school age while providing both Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 education. Fairlands Middle School is situated 2,800 feet south of Gough’s Cave.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cheddar and Draycott.
Cheddar
Photo: Delta 51, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
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 south of Gough’s Cave.
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 2½ miles west of Gough’s Cave.
Gough’s Cave
- Categories: show cave, tourism, tourist attraction, and landform
- Location: Sedgemoor District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.28196° or 51° 16′ 55″ northLongitude
-2.76556° or 2° 45′ 56″ westOpen location code
9C3V76JM+QQOpenStreetMap ID
node 31414693OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cave_entranceOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q4274798
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Latin—“Gough’s Cave” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كهف غوف”
- Bavarian: “Gough’s Cave”
- Belarusian: “Пячора Гофа”
- Catalan: “Cova de Gough”
- Catalan: “Gough’s Cave”
- Chinese: “高夫洞”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كهف جوف”
- Finnish: “Gough’s Cave”
- French: “grotte de Gough”
- French: “Grotte de Gough”
- German: “Gough’s Cave”
- Indonesian: “Gua Gough”
- Italian: “Gough’s Cave”
- Italian: “Grotta di Gough”
- Latin: “Gough’s Cave”
- Latin: “Spelunca Gough”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Guest Services and Museum of Prehistory.
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