Mendips Raceway

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.

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Type: Stadium
Description: motorsport venue in the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England
Also known as: “Mendip Raceway”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cheddar Gorge and Gough’s Cave.

Cheddar Gorge

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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

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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 south of Mendips Raceway.

Tyning’s Barrow Swallet

Cave

Tyning's Barrow Swallet is a cave between Charterhouse and Shipham in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. The cave is close to GB Cave and also to Charterhouse Cave, the deepest cave in the region. Tyning’s Barrow Swallet is situated 3,400 feet northeast of Mendips Raceway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Black Down and Rowberrow.

Black Down

Locality

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Black Down is the highest hill in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, in south-western England. Black Down lies just a few miles eastward of the Bristol Channel at Weston-super-Mare, and provides a view over the Chew Valley. Black Down is situated 1½ miles northeast of Mendips Raceway.

Rowberrow

Hamlet

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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 2 miles northwest of Mendips Raceway.

Axbridge

Town

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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 Mendips Raceway.

Mendips Raceway

Categories: motorsport racing track, motorsport, recreation area, sports location, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Cheddar, Sedgemoor District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.29763° or 51° 17′ 52″ north

Longitude

-2.77059° or 2° 46′ 14″ west

Open location code

9C3V76XH+3Q

OpenStreetMap ID

way 76978347

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=stadium

OpenStreetMap feature

sport=motor

Wikidata ID

Q6816657

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Highlights include Batts Coombe Quarry and barrow.

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