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.- 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
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 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
Photo: Jsommer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
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. Rowberrow is situated 2 miles northwest of Mendips Raceway.
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 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″ northLongitude
-2.77059° or 2° 46′ 14″ westOpen location code
9C3V76XH+3QOpenStreetMap ID
way 76978347OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=stadiumOpenStreetMap feature
sport=motorWikidata ID
Q6816657
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