Callow Hill Quarry

Callow Hill Quarry is a quarry in Cheddar, Sedgemoor District, England. Callow Hill Quarry is situated nearby to Shipham Hill Quarry, as well as near the forest Cheddar Wood.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cheddar Wood and King John’s Hunting Lodge.

Cheddar Wood

Forest

Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

King John’s Hunting Lodge

Museum

Photo: NotFromUtrecht, CC BY-SA 3.0.

King John's Hunting Lodge is a wool-merchant's house built c. 1468, long after the death of King John in 1216, in Axbridge, a town in the English county of Somerset. King John’s Hunting Lodge is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Callow Hill Quarry.

Church of St John the Baptist

Church

Photo: Rodw, Public domain.

The Church of St John the Baptist in Axbridge, Somerset, England, was built in the 13th century and has been designated as a grade I listed building. Work on the current building began in the early 15th century, and grew from an earlier building dating back to about 1230. Church of St John the Baptist is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Callow Hill Quarry.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Axbridge and Rowberrow.

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.

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.

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. Winscombe is situated 1½ miles northwest of Callow Hill Quarry.

Callow Hill Quarry

Type: Quarry
Category: industry
Location: Cheddar, Sedgemoor District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.30055° or 51° 18′ 2″ north

Longitude

-2.79962° or 2° 47′ 59″ west

Open location code

9C3V8622+65

OpenStreetMap ID

way 76859733

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

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