Wookey railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Somerset, England. The site is a 0.04 hectare geological...
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of Wells Forum. The now-closed Wookey Station, once lying on Cheddar Valley line branch of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, is a geological Site of Special...
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ammonites in the subcontractus zone and the morrisi zone. Wookey Station Godminster Lane Quarry and Railway Cutting English Nature citation sheet for the site...
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Cheddar Valley line (redirect from Cheddar Valley Railway)
Draycott station; Lodge Hill station; the adjacent settlement was Westbury-sub-Mendip, but that name was not chosen to avoid confusion; Wookey station; opened...
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liberty of Wells St Andrew). Population centres in the parish are Dinder, Wookey Hole and East, West and South Horrington. It also includes the smaller settlements...
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Wells, Somerset (section Railways)
later German prisoners after the Battle of Normandy. Penleigh Camp on the Wookey Hole Road was a German working camp. Wells City Council is a parish council...
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(Tucker Street) railway station. Wells (Tucker Street) railway station was the second terminus station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley...
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list of closed railway stations in Britain includes the following: Year of closure is given if known. Stations reopened as heritage railways continue to...
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Weare Wedmore Westhay Weston-super-Mare Westonzoyland Wick St Lawrence Wookey Woolavington Aller and Beer Woods Aller Hill Aller Moor Allerton Moor Ascott...
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Haggerston (section Railway stations)
'registration' of clowns' make-up. Much of the collection is now on display at Wookey Hole. The Little Sisters of Jesus are a Roman Catholic community of religious...
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Shepton Mallet (redirect from Shepton Mallet railway station)
(2002). Somerset Railway Stations. Wimborne: Dovecote Press. ISBN 978-1-904349-09-9. Butt, RJV (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stevens...
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factory, flying, and plans to electrify Wookey Hole, "the caves of the Druids". Eight pages of chapter 8, "Wookey Hole", were removed when the novel was...
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Hill railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Somerset, England from 1870 until 1963. The station served...
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Hole. Some caves continued to be occupied until modern times, including Wookey Hole.[citation needed] The Somerset Levels—specifically dry points at Glastonbury...
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ore was extracted from the hill above and east of Axbridge. Axbridge railway station, on the Cheddar Valley line, opened on 3 August 1869. It closed to...
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Sandford once had its own railway station on the Cheddar Valley line, which ran from Yatton to Wells. The now-disused station is a Grade II listed building...
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well as being popular with climbers, hillwalkers and natural historians. Wookey Hole Caves and some of the caves in Cheddar Gorge are open as show caves;...
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It ran from Yatton railway station through Cheddar to Wells (Tucker Street) railway station and joined the East Somerset Railway to make a through route...
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The Mendip transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility on the summit of Pen Hill, part of the Mendip Hills range in Somerset...
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Taunton bus station was situated on Tower Street, Taunton, Somerset, England. It was opened by the Western National Omnibus Company in 1953 and closed...
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Camping coach (category Railway coaches of the United Kingdom)
people to travel by train to the stations where they were situated; they were also encouraged to make use of the railway to travel around the area during...
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Mendip District (section Railway stations)
Woodlands – Westbury-sub-Mendip – Westcombe – Westhay – Whatley – Wookey – Wookey Hole – Worminster – Witham Friary Yarley A37 from Bristol to Yeovil...
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Blagdon Lake (redirect from Blagdon pumping station)
construction materials for the reservoir and pumping station it also provided passenger services. Later the railway was used to bring coal for the pumps. Passenger...
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The quarry is linked by a freight only railway line, part of the former Bristol and North Somerset Railway using trains operated by Mendip Rail, to...
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Beckery), and then north through the Panborough-Bleadney gap in the Wedmore-Wookey Hills, to join the River Axe just north of Bleadney. This route made it...
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Birdsville Courthouse (category Police stations in Queensland)
by the Queensland Department of Works and built from 1888 to 1890 by J Wookey and Henry Walton. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21...
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toothbrushes. Thales Defence closed its radar site (former EMI Electronics) near Wookey Hole, in St Cuthbert Out. Thales Underwater Systems (former Plessey Marine)...
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Transport in Somerset (section Railways)
way of a jetty near Burnham-on-Sea railway station. The railway also used a wharf near Highbridge railway station. A jetty was opened on the River Yeo...
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Priddy Pools Site of Special Scientific Interest and continues south to Wookey Hole before entering the city of Wells, where it passes the Cathedral and...
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Gerry Cottle's Circus, Moscow State Circus, Chinese State Circus; owner Wookey Hole Caves (1956–61; ran away to join the circus) Jason Cundy, Chelsea,...
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