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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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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Chewton Mendip is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is situated 4 miles (6 km) north of Wells, 16 miles (26 km) south of Bath and Bristol...
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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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Somerset, England Mendip Way, a footpath across the Mendip Hills Mendip TV Mast, a transmitter in the Mendips area Forest of Mendip, an ancient forest...
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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)
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 (35 km) south-west...
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Cheddar, Somerset (category Mendip Hills)
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) south-east...
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Wookey Hole Caves (category Caves of the Mendip Hills)
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 through the cave...
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Wookey Hole (category Mendip Hills)
one mile north-west of the city of Wells, and lies on the border of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). One possible origin for...
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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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parish is crossed by the national Monarch's Way long distance footpath, as well as the more local Mendip Way footpath, and National Cycle Route 3. Burcott...
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Axbridge (category Mendip Hills)
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. Axanbrycg...
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Frome (category Towns in Mendip District)
parish in Somerset, England, on uneven high ground at the eastern end of the Mendip Hills and on the River Frome, 13 miles (21 km) south of Bath. The population...
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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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The Mendip transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications mast on the summit of Pen Hill, part of the Mendip Hills range in Somerset, England...
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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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1939, she finally married him. They bought a semi-detached house called Mendips, named after the range of hills, at 251 Menlove Avenue, Liverpool. Lennon...
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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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Canal Cheddar Valley line East Somerset Railway Transport Mendip Rail Mendip Way Monarch's Way National Cycle Route 24 A37 road A39 road A368 road A371...
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Cranmore Tower (category Grade II listed buildings in Mendip District)
280 metres (919 ft) above sea level, and is the highest point on the Mendip Way. The tower was built in 1862-1864, by Thomas Henry Wyatt for John Moore...
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Burrington Combe (category Mendip Hills)
Limestone gorge near the village of Burrington, on the north side of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in North Somerset, England. "Combe"...
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Chew Valley Lake (category Mendip Hills)
for the city of Bristol and surrounding area, taking its supply from the Mendip Hills. Some of the lake water is used to maintain the flow in the River...
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Shambles, Shepton Mallet (category Grade II listed buildings in Mendip District)
documentary 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...
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Westbury-sub-Mendip is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. The village is on the southern slopes of the Mendip Hills, 4 miles (6.4 km) from...
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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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Protection Area and Ramsar site. The river falls within the area of the West Mendip Internal Drainage Board, which has a range of policies and guidance about...
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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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Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom as part of the Wells and Mendip Hills constituency. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first...
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Statue of Romulus and Remus, Beechbarrow (category Grade II listed buildings in Mendip District)
ran along the main Bristol to Wells road, now the A39 road, close to the Mendip transmitting station on Pen Hill. A stray bomb, dropped during the Bristol...
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