Leigh-on-Mendip or Leigh upon Mendip (on Ordnance Survey maps) is a small village on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. It lies roughly equidistant...
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Worcestershire Leigh-on-Mendip, Somerset (also known as Leigh upon Mendip) Leigh Delamere, Wiltshire Leigh Green, Kent Leigh Park, Hampshire Leigh Sinton, Worcestershire...
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The Mendip Hills (commonly called the Mendips) is a range of limestone hills to the south of Bristol and Bath in Somerset, England. Running from Weston-super-Mare...
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The Church of St Giles in Leigh-on-Mendip, Somerset, England, dates from around 1350, and was rebuilt around 1500. It is a Grade 1 listed building, with...
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Hornblotton – Horrington – Huxham Green Kilmersdon Lamyatt – Leigh-on-Mendip – Leighton – Litton – Lydford-on-Fosse Maesbury – Meare – Mells Nettlebridge – North...
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Langford Budville, Langport, Langridge, Laverton, Leighland Chapel, Leigh-on-Mendip, Lilstock, Limington, Littleton, Litton, Locking, Long Ashton, Long...
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Langford Budville CE Primary School, Langford Budville Leigh-on-Mendip School, Leigh-on-Mendip Long Sutton CE Primary School, Long Sutton Lovington CE...
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Axbridge (category Mendip Hills)
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...
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Bristol on the A39 very close to the A37. The village is in a valley on the Mendip Hills, is the source of the River Chew and is therefore on the edge...
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List of civil parishes in Somerset (section Mendip)
Retrieved 1 January 2014. "Leigh-on-Mendip Parish". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved...
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The caves of the Mendip Hills are formed by the particular geology of the Mendip Hills: large areas of limestone worn away by water makes it a national...
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Wells, Somerset (category Towns in Mendip District)
is a cathedral city and civil parish in Somerset, located on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, 21 miles (34 km) south-east of Weston-super-Mare, 22 mi...
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Cheddar, Somerset (category Mendip Hills)
parish in the English county of Somerset. It is situated on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Wells, 11 miles (18 km)...
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Shepton Mallet (category Towns in Mendip District)
It had an estimated population of 10,810 in 2019. Mendip District Council was based there. The Mendip Hills lie to the north and the River Sheppey runs...
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Gough's Cave (category Caves of the Mendip Hills)
Gough's Cave (/ɡɒf/ GOF) is located in Cheddar Gorge on the Mendip Hills, in Cheddar, Somerset, England. The cave is 115 m (377 ft) deep and is 3.405 km...
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Winscombe (category Mendip Hills)
England, close to the settlements of Axbridge and Cheddar, on the western edge of the Mendip Hills, 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Weston-super-Mare and...
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Cheddar Gorge (category Mendip Hills)
Cheddar Gorge 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...
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Wookey Hole Caves (category Caves of the Mendip Hills)
cave and tourist attraction in the village of Wookey Hole on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset, England. The River Axe flows...
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Swildon's Hole (category Caves of the Mendip Hills)
Somerset. At 9,144 metres (30,000 ft) in length, it is the longest cave on the Mendip Hills. It has been found to be connected to Priddy Green Sink and forms...
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Black Down, Somerset (category Mendip Hills)
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...
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The Mendip Way is an 80-kilometre (50 mi) long-distance footpath across the Mendip Hills from Weston-super-Mare to Frome. It is divided into two sections...
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Shambles, Shepton Mallet (category Grade II listed buildings in Mendip District)
series Day Out, in an episode entitled "The Southern Edge of Mendip", and broadcast on BBC Two. It was also filmed for the television documentary series...
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Pen Hill (category Mendip Hills)
Hill forms part of the Mendip Hills plateau in Somerset, England. The hill is located in St Cuthbert Out civil parish in Mendip district. The name Pen...
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Sandford, Somerset (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
between Churchill and Banwell on the A368 in North Somerset, England. The Parish of Winscombe and Sandford, centred on the Parish Church of Saint James...
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Bleadon (category Mendip Hills)
the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. 154: 119–164. "Mendip Hills An Archaeological Survey of the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty"...
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River Chew (category Mendip Hills)
Mendip. Strode Brook and Winford Brook are the main tributaries, both joining the Chew from the left. The river flows northwest from Chewton Mendip through...
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The Mendip Hills, (Mendips) in northern Somerset, are the most southerly Carboniferous Limestone uplands in Britain. The Mendips comprise three major anticlinal...
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Hillingdon, London St Giles' Church, Imber, Wiltshire Church of St Giles, Leigh-on-Mendip, Somerset St Giles Church, Lincoln, Lincolnshire St Giles' Church,...
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Cullompton St John the Baptist Parish Church, Glastonbury St Giles' Church, Leigh-on-Mendip Church of St John the Baptist, Lustleigh Parish Church of Marwood,...
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Torr Works (category Quarries in the Mendip Hills)
Mallet on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. The quarry was formerly known as Merehead, a name which has been retained for its rail depot on the opposite...
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