Fairlands Middle 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.

Type: School
Description: school in Somerset, UK
Address: Masons Way, Cheddar, BS27 3PG

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cheddar Gorge and Gough’s Cave.

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. Gough’s Cave is situated 2,800 feet north of Fairlands Middle School.

St Andrew’s Church, Cheddar

Church

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The Church of St Andrew in Cheddar, Somerset, England dates from the 14th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The church was restored in 1873 by William Butterfield. St Andrew’s Church, Cheddar is situated 1,500 feet west of Fairlands Middle School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Draycott and Axbridge.

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 1½ miles southeast of Fairlands Middle School.

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 2 miles west of Fairlands Middle School.

Rodney Stoke

Village

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

Rodney Stoke is a small village and civil parish, located at grid reference ST486501, 5 miles north-west of Wells, in the English county of Somerset. The village is on the A371 between Draycott and Westbury-sub-Mendip. Rodney Stoke is situated 2½ miles southeast of Fairlands Middle School.