Cheddar Wood
Cheddar Wood is an 86.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Cheddar in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England, notified in 1967. Cheddar Wood and the smaller Macall's Wood near Cheddar Gorge are what remains of the wood of the Bishops of Bath and Wells in the thirteenth century and of King Edmund the Magnificent's wood in the tenth.Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
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.
Mendips Raceway
Stadium
Mendips Raceway is a motorsport venue in the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. It is located on the rim of Batts Combe quarry between Shipham and Charterhouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Axbridge and Winscombe.
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.
Winscombe
Village
Photo: Robert Cutts, CC BY 2.0.
Winscombe is a large village in the North Somerset unitary district of Somerset, England, close to the settlements of Axbridge and Cheddar, on the western edge of the Mendip Hills, 7 miles southeast of Weston-super-Mare and 14 miles southwest of Bristol.
Churchill
Village
Photo: Rodw, Public domain.
Churchill is a village and civil parish in North Somerset, England. It lies on the western edge of the Mendip Hills, about 8 miles east of Weston-super-Mare, and about 15 miles south-west of Bristol.
Cheddar Wood
- Type: Forest
- Description: protected area in Somerset, England
- Category: protected area
- Location: Cheddar, Sedgemoor District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.2942° or 51° 17′ 39″ northLongitude
-2.7968° or 2° 47′ 48″ westOpen location code
9C3V76V3+M7OpenStreetMap ID
way 31014944OpenStreetMap feature
natural=woodWikidata ID
Q5089195
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