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/></span></span></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location of the Mendip Hills in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="locality"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Somerset" title="Somerset">Somerset</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Coordinates</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Mendip_Hills&params=51_18_N_2_44_W_scale:100000_type:landmark_dim:15km"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">51°18′N</span> <span class="longitude">2°44′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">51.300°N 2.733°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">51.300; -2.733</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data">30 km (19 mi)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Width</th><td class="infobox-data">10 km (6.2 mi)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Area</th><td class="infobox-data">200 km<sup>2</sup> (77 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">1972</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Governing body</th><td class="infobox-data">Mendip Hills AONB Partnership</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070328193721/http://www.mendiphillsaonb.org.uk/index.php">www.mendiphillsaonb.org.uk</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Mendip Hills</b> (commonly called the <b>Mendips</b>) is a range of <a href="/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone">limestone</a> hills to the south of <a href="/wiki/Bristol" title="Bristol">Bristol</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bath,_Somerset" title="Bath, Somerset">Bath</a> in <a href="/wiki/Somerset" title="Somerset">Somerset</a>, England. Running from <a href="/wiki/Weston-super-Mare" title="Weston-super-Mare">Weston-super-Mare</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Channel" title="Bristol Channel">Bristol Channel</a> in the west to the <a href="/wiki/River_Frome,_Somerset" title="River Frome, Somerset">Frome</a> valley in the east, the hills overlook the <a href="/wiki/Somerset_Levels" title="Somerset Levels">Somerset Levels</a> to the south and the <a href="/wiki/Chew_Valley" title="Chew Valley">Chew Valley</a> and other tributaries of the <a href="/wiki/River_Avon_(Bristol)" class="mw-redirect" title="River Avon (Bristol)">Avon</a> to the north.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The highest point, at 325 metres above sea level, is Beacon Batch which is the summit area atop <a href="/wiki/Black_Down,_Somerset" title="Black Down, Somerset">Black Down</a>. The hills gave their name to the former local government district of <a href="/wiki/Mendip_District" title="Mendip District">Mendip</a>, which administered most of the local area until April 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The higher, western part of the hills, covering 198 km<sup>2</sup> (76 sq mi) has been designated an <a href="/wiki/Area_of_Outstanding_Natural_Beauty" title="Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty">Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty</a> (AONB), which gives it a level of protection comparable to a <a href="/wiki/National_park" title="National park">national park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AONBFAQ_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AONBFAQ-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The hills are largely formed from <a href="/wiki/Carboniferous_Limestone" title="Carboniferous Limestone">Carboniferous Limestone</a>, which is quarried at several sites. <a href="/wiki/Fraxinus" title="Fraxinus">Ash</a>–<a href="/wiki/Maple" title="Maple">maple</a> woodland, <a href="/wiki/Calcareous_grassland" title="Calcareous grassland">calcareous grassland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mesotrophic_grasslands_in_the_British_National_Vegetation_Classification_system" title="Mesotrophic grasslands in the British National Vegetation Classification system">mesotrophic grassland</a> which can be found across the Mendip Hills provide nationally important semi-natural habitats. With their <a href="/wiki/Temperate_climate" title="Temperate climate">temperate climate</a> these support a range of flora and fauna including birds, butterflies and small mammals. The <a href="/wiki/Dry_stone" title="Dry stone">dry stone</a> walls that divide the pasture into fields are of botanical importance as they support important populations of the nationally scarce <a href="/wiki/Draba" title="Draba">wall whitlowgrass</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Draba_muralis" title="Draba muralis">Draba muralis</a></i>). </p><p>The origin of the name "Mendip" is unclear, but it is known that there has been human habitation since <a href="/wiki/Palaeolithic" class="mw-redirect" title="Palaeolithic">Palaeolithic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mesolithic" title="Mesolithic">Mesolithic</a> times with a range of artefacts being recovered from caves. <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age" title="Bronze Age">Bronze Age</a> features such as <a href="/wiki/Tumulus" title="Tumulus">barrows</a> are numerous with over 200 <a href="/wiki/Scheduled_monument" title="Scheduled monument">scheduled ancient monuments</a> recorded. There is evidence of mining in the Mendips dating back to the late Bronze Age, which increased after the Roman invasion, particularly for lead and silver around <a href="/wiki/Charterhouse,_Somerset" title="Charterhouse, Somerset">Charterhouse</a>. The difficult conditions in the area were noted by <a href="/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce">William Wilberforce</a> in 1789, which inspired <a href="/wiki/Hannah_More" title="Hannah More">Hannah More</a> to begin her work improving the conditions of the Mendip miners and agricultural workers. In the 18th and early 19th centuries 7,300 ha (18,000 acres) of the common heathland on the hills were <a href="/wiki/Enclosure" title="Enclosure">enclosed</a>. In World War II a bombing decoy was constructed on top of <a href="/wiki/Black_Down,_Somerset" title="Black Down, Somerset">Black Down</a> at Beacon Batch. More recently, the mast of the <a href="/wiki/Mendip_transmitting_station" title="Mendip transmitting station">Mendip transmitting station</a>, <a href="/wiki/Micro_hydro" title="Micro hydro">micro-hydroelectric turbines</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Wind_turbine" title="Wind turbine">wind turbine</a> have been installed. </p><p>There are several <a href="/wiki/Quarries_of_the_Mendip_Hills" title="Quarries of the Mendip Hills">quarries on the Mendip Hills</a>. Some of the stone is still carried by <a href="/wiki/Mendip_Rail" title="Mendip Rail">Mendip Rail</a>; the other railways in the area closed in the 1960s. Although the Roman <a href="/wiki/Fosse_Way" title="Fosse Way">Fosse Way</a> crossed the hills, the main roads generally avoid the higher areas and run along the bottom of the scarp slope on the north and south of the hills. The western end of the hills is crossed by the <a href="/wiki/M5_motorway" title="M5 motorway">M5 motorway</a> and <a href="/wiki/A38_road" title="A38 road">A38</a>. Further east, and running almost north to south, are the <a href="/wiki/A37_road" title="A37 road">A37</a> and <a href="/wiki/A39_road" title="A39 road">A39</a>. A wide range of outdoor sports and leisure activities take place in the Mendips, many based on the particular geology of the area. The hills are recognised as a national centre for <a href="/wiki/Caving" title="Caving">caving</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cave_diving" title="Cave diving">cave diving</a>, as well as being popular with climbers, hillwalkers and natural historians. <a href="/wiki/Wookey_Hole_Caves" title="Wookey Hole Caves">Wookey Hole Caves</a> and some of the caves in <a href="/wiki/Cheddar_Gorge" title="Cheddar Gorge">Cheddar Gorge</a> are open as <a href="/wiki/Show_cave" title="Show cave">show caves</a>; however, many of the <a href="/wiki/Caves_of_the_Mendip_Hills" title="Caves of the Mendip Hills">caves of the Mendip Hills</a> are only accessible to members of caving clubs. Long-distance footpaths include the <a href="/wiki/Mendip_Way" title="Mendip Way">Mendip Way</a> and <a href="/wiki/Limestone_Link" title="Limestone Link">Limestone Link</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Toponymy">Toponymy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mendip_Hills&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Toponymy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Several explanations for the name "Mendip" have been suggested. Its earliest known form is <i>Mendepe</i> in 1185. One suggestion is that it is derived from the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">medieval</a> term <span title="Middle English (1100-1500)-language text"><i lang="enm">Myne-deepes</i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-EN_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EN-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Others suggest it derives from Celtic <i><span title="Celtic languages collective text"><i lang="cel">monith</i></span></i>, meaning mountain or hill, with an uncertain second element, perhaps <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> <i><span title="Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text"><i lang="ang">yppe</i></span></i> in the sense of upland or plateau.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A third explanation is that the name is cognate with <i>Mened</i> (<a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a> <i><span title="Welsh-language text"><i lang="cy">mynydd</i></span></i>), a <a href="/wiki/Common_Brittonic" title="Common Brittonic">Brythonic</a> term for upland moorland. The suffix may be a contraction of the Old English <i><span title="Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text"><i lang="ang">hop</i></span></i>, meaning a valley. Possible further meanings have been identified. The first is 'the stone pit' from the <a href="/wiki/Celtic_languages" title="Celtic languages">Celtic</a> <i><span title="Celtic languages collective text"><i lang="cel">meyn</i></span></i> and <i><span title="Celtic languages collective text"><i lang="cel">dyppa</i></span></i> in reference to the collapsed cave systems of <a href="/wiki/Cheddar,_Somerset" title="Cheddar, Somerset">Cheddar</a>. The second is "mighty and awesome" from the Old English <i><span title="Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text"><i lang="ang">moen</i></span></i> and <i><span title="Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text"><i lang="ang">deop</i></span></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geology">Geology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mendip_Hills&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Geology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The rock <a href="/wiki/Strata" class="mw-redirect" title="Strata">strata</a> known as the Carboniferous Limestone were laid down during the <a href="/wiki/Mississippian_(geology)" title="Mississippian (geology)">early Carboniferous Period</a>, about 320–350 million years ago.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subsequently, much of northwestern Europe underwent <a href="/wiki/Continental_collision" title="Continental collision">continental collision</a> throughout the late <a href="/wiki/Paleozoic_Era" class="mw-redirect" title="Paleozoic Era">Paleozoic Era</a>, culminating in the final phases of the <a href="/wiki/Variscan_orogeny" title="Variscan orogeny">Variscan orogeny</a> near the end of the Carboniferous, 300 million years ago. This <a href="/wiki/Tectonics" title="Tectonics">tectonic</a> activity produced a complex suite of mountain and hill ranges across what is now southern Ireland, south-western England, <a href="/wiki/Brittany" title="Brittany">Brittany</a>, and elsewhere in western Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mendip_Hills_Map.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="map showing the higher ground in brown, running from the bottom right to top left and the lower surrounding areas in green" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Mendip_Hills_Map.png/220px-Mendip_Hills_Map.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="129" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Mendip_Hills_Map.png/330px-Mendip_Hills_Map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Mendip_Hills_Map.png/440px-Mendip_Hills_Map.png 2x" data-file-width="2512" data-file-height="1476" /></a><figcaption>Topographic map of the Mendips</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:JurRockgd01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Brown and yellow image with oval and long thin areas representing the fossilised remains" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/JurRockgd01.jpg/220px-JurRockgd01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/JurRockgd01.jpg/330px-JurRockgd01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/JurRockgd01.jpg/440px-JurRockgd01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="750" /></a><figcaption>Cross-section of a Carboniferous Limestone bored by Jurassic organisms; borings include <i><a href="/wiki/Gastrochaenolites" title="Gastrochaenolites">Gastrochaenolites</a></i> (some with boring <a href="/wiki/Bivalvia" title="Bivalvia">bivalves</a> in place) and <i><a href="/wiki/Trypanites" title="Trypanites">Trypanites</a></i>; Mendip Hills; scale bar = 1 cm</figcaption></figure> <p>As a result of the Variscan mountain-building, the Mendip area now comprises at least four <a href="/wiki/Anticline" title="Anticline">anticlinal</a> <a href="/wiki/Fold_(geology)" title="Fold (geology)">fold</a> structures, with an east–west trend, each with a core of older <a href="/wiki/Devonian" title="Devonian">Devonian</a> sandstone and <a href="/wiki/Silurian" title="Silurian">Silurian</a> <a href="/wiki/Volcanic_rock" title="Volcanic rock">volcanic rocks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The latter are quarried for use in road construction and as a concrete aggregate.<sup id="cite_ref-EN_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EN-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Mendips were considerably higher and steeper 200 to 300 million years ago,<sup id="cite_ref-Barrington_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barrington-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and subsequent <a href="/wiki/Erosion" title="Erosion">erosion</a> has resulted in varying geological features including gorges, dry valleys, <a href="/wiki/Scree" title="Scree">screes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sinkhole" title="Sinkhole">swallets</a> and others typical of <a href="/wiki/Karst" title="Karst">karst</a> landscapes. Beneath the southern <a href="/wiki/Escarpment" title="Escarpment">escarpment</a> and plateau are <a href="/wiki/Caves_of_the_Mendip_Hills" title="Caves of the Mendip Hills">caves</a>. There are also areas of <a href="/wiki/Limestone_pavement" title="Limestone pavement">limestone pavement</a> and other karst features. Dissolution of the limestone produced many of the gorges including <a href="/wiki/Cheddar_Gorge" title="Cheddar Gorge">Cheddar Gorge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Burrington_Combe" title="Burrington Combe">Burrington Combe</a>. <a href="/wiki/Spring_(hydrology)" title="Spring (hydrology)">Springs</a> are a common feature of the eastern part of the hills, a number of which have associated <a href="/wiki/Tufa" title="Tufa">tufa</a> deposits.<sup id="cite_ref-EN_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EN-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Black Down is a <a href="/wiki/Moorland" title="Moorland">moorland</a> area, with its steeper slopes covered in <a href="/wiki/Bracken" title="Bracken">bracken</a> (<i>Pteridium</i>) and its flatter <a href="/wiki/Summit" title="Summit">summit</a> in <a href="/wiki/Calluna" title="Calluna">heather</a> (<i>Calluna</i>) and grasses rather than the pasture which covers much of the plateau.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The main body of the range is an extended plateau, 6–8 km (4–5 miles) wide and generally about 240 metres (800 ft) above sea level.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In some places lead and zinc <a href="/wiki/Ore" title="Ore">ores</a> have mineralised the limestone and the <a href="/wiki/Dolomite_(rock)" title="Dolomite (rock)">dolomitic</a> <a href="/wiki/Conglomerate_(geology)" title="Conglomerate (geology)">conglomerate</a>. From the time of <a href="/wiki/Roman_Britain" title="Roman Britain">Roman Britain</a> until 1908, the hills were an important source of lead.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These areas were the centre of a major mining industry in the past and this is reflected in areas of contaminated rough ground known locally as "gruffy". The word "gruffy" is thought to derive from the grooves that were formed where the lead ore was extracted from <a href="/wiki/Vein_(geology)" title="Vein (geology)">veins</a> near the surface.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other commodities obtained included <a href="/wiki/Calamine_(mineral)" title="Calamine (mineral)">calamine</a> (<a href="/wiki/Zinc" title="Zinc">zinc</a> ore), <a href="/wiki/Manganese" title="Manganese">manganese</a>, iron, copper and <a href="/wiki/Baryte" title="Baryte">baryte</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The eastern area reaches into parts of the <a href="/wiki/Somerset_Coalfield" title="Somerset Coalfield">Somerset Coalfield</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>North and east of the Mendips the Carboniferous Limestone layers are found in the subsurface and are exposed in <a href="/wiki/Avon_Gorge" title="Avon Gorge">Avon Gorge</a>, and are overlain by younger strata in <a href="/wiki/Dundry_Hill" title="Dundry Hill">Dundry Hill</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Cotswolds" title="Cotswolds">Cotswolds</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where <a href="/wiki/Oolitic_limestone" class="mw-redirect" title="Oolitic limestone">oolitic limestone</a> of <a href="/wiki/Jurassic" title="Jurassic">Jurassic</a> age is found at the surface. West of the main Mendip plateau the Carboniferous Limestone continues in <a href="/wiki/Bleadon_Hill" title="Bleadon Hill">Bleadon Hill</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brean_Down" title="Brean Down">Brean Down</a>, and on the islands of <a href="/wiki/Steep_Holm" title="Steep Holm">Steep Holm</a> and <a href="/wiki/Flat_Holm" title="Flat Holm">Flat Holm</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Channel" title="Bristol Channel">Bristol Channel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The hills gave their name to the rare mineral <a href="/wiki/Mendipite" title="Mendipite">mendipite</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Oxohalide" title="Oxohalide">oxohalide</a> of <a href="/wiki/Lead" title="Lead">lead</a> with <a href="/wiki/Chlorine" title="Chlorine">chlorine</a> with formula Pb<sub>3</sub>Cl<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> which was first described in the area. A sample of mendipite was found at the head of <a href="/wiki/Ebbor_Gorge" title="Ebbor Gorge">Ebbor Gorge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Climate">Climate</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mendip_Hills&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Along with the rest of <a href="/wiki/Climate_of_south-west_England" title="Climate of south-west England">South West England</a>, the Mendip Hills have a <a href="/wiki/Temperate_climate" title="Temperate climate">temperate climate</a> that is generally wetter and milder than the rest of England. The annual mean temperature is about 10 °C (50 °F) with seasonal and <a href="/wiki/Diurnal_motion" title="Diurnal motion">diurnal</a> variations, but the modifying effect of the sea restricts the range to less than that in most other parts of the United Kingdom. January is the coldest month, with mean minimum temperatures between 1 °C (34 °F) and 2 °C (36 °F). July and August are the warmest, with mean daily maxima around 21 °C (70 °F).<sup id="cite_ref-metoffice_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-metoffice-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In general, December is the dullest month and June the sunniest. The south-west of England enjoys a favoured location, particularly in summer, when the <a href="/wiki/Azores_High" title="Azores High">Azores High</a> extends its influence north-eastwards towards the UK.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Cumulus_cloud" title="Cumulus cloud">Cumulus cloud</a> often forms inland, especially near hills, and reduces exposure to sunshine. The average annual sunshine is about 1,600 hours. Rainfall tends to be associated with Atlantic <a href="/wiki/Low-pressure_area" title="Low-pressure area">depressions</a> or with convection. In summer, convection caused by solar surface heating sometimes forms shower clouds, and a large proportion of the annual precipitation falls from showers and thunderstorms at this time of year. Average rainfall is around 800–900 mm (31–35 in). About 8–15 days of <a href="/wiki/Snow" title="Snow">snowfall</a> is typical. November to March have the highest mean wind speeds, with June to August having the lightest; the prevailing wind direction is from the south-west.<sup id="cite_ref-metoffice_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-metoffice-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A combination of the rainfall and geology leads to an estimated average daily runoff from springs and boreholes of some 330,000 m<sup>3</sup> (72 million imperial gallons). Bristol Waterworks Company (now <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Water" title="Bristol Water">Bristol Water</a>) recognised the value of this resource and between 1846 and 1853 created a series of tunnels, pipes, and aqueducts called the "Line of Works", which still carry approximately 18,200 m<sup>3</sup> (4 million imperial gallons) of water a day to <a href="/wiki/Barrow_Gurney_Reservoirs" title="Barrow Gurney Reservoirs">Barrow Gurney Reservoirs</a> for <a href="/wiki/Filtration" title="Filtration">filtration</a> and then on to Bristol and the surrounding areas. This collection and conveyance of water from the <a href="/wiki/Chewton_Mendip" title="Chewton Mendip">Chewton Mendip</a> and <a href="/wiki/East_Harptree" title="East Harptree">East</a> and <a href="/wiki/West_Harptree" title="West Harptree">West Harptree</a> areas is accomplished by the effect of gravity on the runoff.<sup id="cite_ref-Barrington_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barrington-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Water from the Mendips is also collected in <a href="/wiki/Cheddar_Reservoir" title="Cheddar Reservoir">Cheddar Reservoir</a>, which was constructed in the 1930s and takes water from the springs in Cheddar Gorge.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ecology">Ecology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mendip_Hills&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Ecology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dartford_Warbler_-_Arenzano_-_Italy_322_(26073040874).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Dartford_Warbler_-_Arenzano_-_Italy_322_%2826073040874%29.jpg/220px-Dartford_Warbler_-_Arenzano_-_Italy_322_%2826073040874%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Dartford_Warbler_-_Arenzano_-_Italy_322_%2826073040874%29.jpg/330px-Dartford_Warbler_-_Arenzano_-_Italy_322_%2826073040874%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Dartford_Warbler_-_Arenzano_-_Italy_322_%2826073040874%29.jpg/440px-Dartford_Warbler_-_Arenzano_-_Italy_322_%2826073040874%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1140" data-file-height="760" /></a><figcaption>Male Dartford warbler</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Four-spotted_Chaser._Libellula_quadrimaculata.Male._form_praenubila_-_Flickr_-_gailhampshire.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Four-spotted_Chaser._Libellula_quadrimaculata.Male._form_praenubila_-_Flickr_-_gailhampshire.jpg/220px-Four-spotted_Chaser._Libellula_quadrimaculata.Male._form_praenubila_-_Flickr_-_gailhampshire.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Four-spotted_Chaser._Libellula_quadrimaculata.Male._form_praenubila_-_Flickr_-_gailhampshire.jpg/330px-Four-spotted_Chaser._Libellula_quadrimaculata.Male._form_praenubila_-_Flickr_-_gailhampshire.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Four-spotted_Chaser._Libellula_quadrimaculata.Male._form_praenubila_-_Flickr_-_gailhampshire.jpg/440px-Four-spotted_Chaser._Libellula_quadrimaculata.Male._form_praenubila_-_Flickr_-_gailhampshire.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2589" data-file-height="1763" /></a><figcaption>Four-spotted chaser</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kleine_Hufeisennase_cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Kleine_Hufeisennase_cropped.jpg/220px-Kleine_Hufeisennase_cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Kleine_Hufeisennase_cropped.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="328" data-file-height="221" /></a><figcaption>Lesser horseshoe bat</figcaption></figure> <p>The area hosts three semi-natural habitats of national importance: <a href="/wiki/Fraxinus" title="Fraxinus">ash</a>–<a href="/wiki/Maple" title="Maple">maple</a> woodland (<i>Fraxinus</i> spp. and <i>Acer</i> spp.) often with abundant <a href="/wiki/Tilia_cordata" title="Tilia cordata">small-leaved lime</a> (<i>Tilia cordata</i>), <a href="/wiki/Calcareous_grassland" title="Calcareous grassland">calcareous grassland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mesotrophic_grasslands_in_the_British_National_Vegetation_Classification_system" title="Mesotrophic grasslands in the British National Vegetation Classification system">mesotrophic grassland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EN_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EN-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Much of the Mendips is open calcareous grassland, supporting a wide <a href="/wiki/Biodiversity" title="Biodiversity">variety</a> of flowering plants and insects. Some parts are <a href="/wiki/Deciduous" title="Deciduous">deciduous</a> <a href="/wiki/Ancient_woodland" title="Ancient woodland">ancient woodland</a>, and some have been used intensively for arable agriculture, particularly since World War I. As the demand for arable land in Britain declined, some areas were returned to grassland, but the use of fertilisers and herbicides has reduced biodiversity.<sup id="cite_ref-EN_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EN-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Grazing by rabbits, sheep and cattle maintains the grassland habitat. </p><p>Of the many bird species found in the Mendips, the <a href="/wiki/Peregrine_falcon" title="Peregrine falcon">peregrine falcon</a> (<i>Falco peregrinus</i>), which has gradually recolonised the area since the 1980s, is particularly significant. It breeds on sea and inland cliffs and on the faces of active and disused quarries. The upland heaths of the west Mendips have recently increased in ornithological importance due to colonisation by the <a href="/wiki/Dartford_warbler" title="Dartford warbler">Dartford warbler</a> (<i>Sylvia undata</i>), which can be found at Black Down and <a href="/wiki/Crook_Peak_to_Shute_Shelve_Hill" title="Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill">Crook Peak</a>. In Britain, this species is usually associated with lowland heath. The woodlands at <a href="/wiki/Stock_Hill" title="Stock Hill">Stock Hill</a> are a breeding site for <a href="/wiki/European_nightjar" title="European nightjar">nightjars</a> (<i>Caprimulgus europaeus</i>) and <a href="/wiki/Long-eared_owl" title="Long-eared owl">long-eared owls</a> (<i>Asio otus</i>). The Waldegrave Pool, part of <a href="/wiki/Priddy_Mineries" title="Priddy Mineries">Priddy Mineries</a>, is an important site for <a href="/wiki/Dragonfly" title="Dragonfly">dragonflies</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Downy_emerald" title="Downy emerald">downy emerald</a> (<i>Cordulia aenea</i>) and <a href="/wiki/Four-spotted_chaser" title="Four-spotted chaser">four-spotted chaser</a> (<i>Libellula quadrimaculata</i>). Waldegrave Pool is the only Mendip breeding site for downy emerald dragonflies.<sup id="cite_ref-EN_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EN-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2007 the first confirmed sighting of a <a href="/wiki/Red_kite" title="Red kite">red kite</a> (<i>Milvus milvus</i>) on the Mendips was made at Charterhouse.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A range of important small mammals are found in the area, including the <a href="/wiki/Hazel_dormouse" title="Hazel dormouse">hazel dormouse</a> (<i>Muscardinus avellanarius</i>) and bats. The hazel dormouse is restricted largely to <a href="/wiki/Coppicing" title="Coppicing">coppice</a> woodland and scrub, while the bats, including the nationally rare <a href="/wiki/Lesser_horseshoe_bat" title="Lesser horseshoe bat">lesser</a> (<i>Rhinolophus hipposideros</i>) and <a href="/wiki/Greater_horseshoe_bat" title="Greater horseshoe bat">greater horseshoe bats</a> (<i>Rhinolophus ferrumequinum</i>), have a number of colonies in buildings, caves, and mines. A rare and endangered species, the greater horseshoe bat is protected under the <a href="/wiki/Wildlife_and_Countryside_Act_1981" title="Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981">Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981</a> and is listed in Annex II of the 1992 <a href="/wiki/Habitats_Directive" title="Habitats Directive">European Community Habitats Directive</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Amphibians such as the <a href="/wiki/Northern_crested_newt" title="Northern crested newt">great crested newt</a> (<i>Triturus cristatus</i>) have a wide distribution across the Mendips and are often found in flooded disused quarries. </p><p>Several rare butterflies are indigenous to the area, including the nationally scarce <a href="/wiki/Pearl-bordered_fritillary" title="Pearl-bordered fritillary">pearl-bordered fritillary</a> (<i>Boloria euphrosyne</i>), <a href="/wiki/Hamearis_lucina" title="Hamearis lucina">Duke of Burgundy</a> (<i>Hamearis lucina</i>), and <a href="/wiki/White-letter_hairstreak" title="White-letter hairstreak">white-letter hairstreak</a> (<i>Satyrium w-album</i>). The <a href="/wiki/Large_blue" title="Large blue">large blue</a> butterfly (<i>Maculinea arion</i>) became extinct in the hills in the late 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-EN_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EN-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Austropotamobius_pallipes" title="Austropotamobius pallipes">white-clawed crayfish</a> is also nationally rare and is a declining species with small populations in a tributary of the <a href="/wiki/Mells_River" title="Mells River">Mells River</a> and the <a href="/wiki/River_Chew" title="River Chew">River Chew</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Dry_stone" title="Dry stone">dry stone</a> walls that divide the pasture into fields are a well-known feature of the Mendips. Constructed from local limestone in an "A frame" design, the walls are strong yet contain no mortar; many have been neglected and allowed to disintegrate, or have been replaced or contained by a mix of barbed wire and sheep fencing. These dry-stone walls are of botanical importance as they support important populations of the nationally scarce <a href="/wiki/Draba" title="Draba">wall whitlowgrass</a> (<i>Draba muralis</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Amongst the plants which occur in the area are the <a href="/wiki/Dianthus_gratianopolitanus" title="Dianthus gratianopolitanus">Cheddar pink</a> (<i>Dianthus gratianopolitanus</i>), <a href="/wiki/Lithospermum_purpurocaeruleum" class="mw-redirect" title="Lithospermum purpurocaeruleum">purple gromwell</a> (<i>Lithospermum purpurocaeruleum</i>), <a href="/wiki/Helianthemum_apenninum" title="Helianthemum apenninum">white rock-rose</a> (<i>Helianthemum apenninum</i>), <a href="/wiki/Koeleria_vallesiana" title="Koeleria vallesiana">Somerset hair-grass</a> (<i>Koeleria vallesiana</i>), and <a href="/wiki/Carex_depauperata" title="Carex depauperata">starved wood-sedge</a> (<i>Carex depauperata</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-EN_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EN-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mendip_Hills&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Mining_in_Roman_Britain" title="Mining in Roman Britain">Mining in Roman Britain</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Charterhouseleadmines.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Uneven gullies in a grassy field" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Charterhouseleadmines.jpg/220px-Charterhouseleadmines.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Charterhouseleadmines.jpg/330px-Charterhouseleadmines.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Charterhouseleadmines.jpg/440px-Charterhouseleadmines.jpg 2x" data-file-width="587" data-file-height="395" /></a><figcaption>Roman lead mines at <a href="/wiki/Charterhouse,_Somerset" title="Charterhouse, Somerset">Charterhouse</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Twenty <a href="/wiki/Paleolithic" title="Paleolithic">Palaeolithic</a> sites have been identified in the Mendips, of which eleven represent <a href="/wiki/Stage_(stratigraphy)" title="Stage (stratigraphy)">faunal</a> remains and <a href="/wiki/Lithic_stage" title="Lithic stage">lithic</a> artefacts recovered from caves. The remaining eight sites refer to surface lithic discoveries, and the artefacts found include points, scrapers, and handaxes. Twenty-seven <a href="/wiki/Mesolithic" title="Mesolithic">Mesolithic</a> finds are represented by flint and chert lithics.<sup id="cite_ref-aggregate_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aggregate-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Large numbers of artefacts have been found near <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age" title="Bronze Age">Bronze Age</a> features, such as the <a href="/wiki/Tumulus" title="Tumulus">barrows</a> and forts around <a href="/wiki/Priddy" title="Priddy">Priddy</a> and at <a href="/wiki/Dolebury_Warren" title="Dolebury Warren">Dolebury Warren</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The caves of Cheddar Gorge have yielded many archaeological remains, as flood waters have washed artefacts and bones into the caves and preserved them in silt. The <a href="/wiki/Cheddar_Man" title="Cheddar Man">Cheddar Man</a>, Britain's oldest complete skeleton, was found in <a href="/wiki/Gough%27s_Cave" title="Gough's Cave">Gough's Cave</a>, part of the <a href="/wiki/Cheddar_Complex" title="Cheddar Complex">Cheddar Complex</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Within the Mendip Hills AONB, good evidence exists for 286 definite examples of round barrows,<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including the <a href="/wiki/Priddy_Nine_Barrows_and_Ashen_Hill_Barrow_Cemeteries" title="Priddy Nine Barrows and Ashen Hill Barrow Cemeteries">Priddy Nine Barrows and Ashen Hill Barrow Cemeteries</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-groupofseven_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-groupofseven-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ashenhill_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ashenhill-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pair_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pair-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Historic_England_Archive" title="Historic England Archive">Historic England Archive</a> holds over 1,200 entries for the area, and there are over 600 <a href="/wiki/Listed_building" title="Listed building">listed buildings</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-English_heritage_project_proposal_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-English_heritage_project_proposal-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in addition to over 200 <a href="/wiki/Scheduled_monument" title="Scheduled monument">scheduled ancient monuments</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These protected monuments range from prehistoric barrows and hillforts to the Black Down bombing decoy from the Second World War.<sup id="cite_ref-English_heritage_project_proposal_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-English_heritage_project_proposal-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Settlement on the Mendip Hills appears to fall into two types. The first, apparent in the Neolithic and <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age_Britain" title="Bronze Age Britain">Bronze Age Britain</a> periods, and repeated on a small scale in the Middle Ages and post-medieval era, comprised occupation by self-sufficient groups in small communities or isolated farms. The second was represented in the <a href="/wiki/British_Iron_Age" title="British Iron Age">Iron Age Britain</a> and <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman</a> periods by large sites with specialist functions, existing by virtue of their ability to exert power over lowland producers. From the Iron Age onward the ownership of land took on increasing importance, with large landholdings based on the mines or on stock grazing, denying settlers access to the plateau or forcing them off the hills.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is evidence of mining dating back to the late Bronze Age, when there were technological changes in metal-working indicating the use of lead. The Roman invasion, and possibly the preceding period of involvement in the internal affairs of the south of England, was inspired, in part, by the mineral wealth of the Mendips.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce">William Wilberforce</a>'s visit to Cheddar in 1789, during which he saw the poor circumstances of the locals, inspired <a href="/wiki/Hannah_More" title="Hannah More">Hannah More</a> to begin her work improving the conditions of the Mendip miners and agricultural workers.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under her influence, schools were built and children were formally instructed in reading and Christian doctrine. Between 1770 and 1813 some 7,300 ha (18,000 acres) of land on the hills were enclosed, mainly with dry stone walls that today form a key part of the landscape. In 2006 funding was obtained to maintain and improve the walls, which had steadily deteriorated over the years.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Beacon_batch_lowres.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Dark coloured moorland stretching into the distance with grass in the foreground" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Beacon_batch_lowres.jpg/220px-Beacon_batch_lowres.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Beacon_batch_lowres.jpg/330px-Beacon_batch_lowres.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Beacon_batch_lowres.jpg/440px-Beacon_batch_lowres.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>A view across Black Down from <a href="/wiki/Black_Down,_Somerset" title="Black Down, Somerset">Beacon Batch</a>, highest point in Mendip</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_and_21st_centuries">20th and 21st centuries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mendip_Hills&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 20th and 21st centuries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In World War II, a bombing decoy was constructed on top of Black Down at Beacon Batch in an attempt to confuse bombers aiming to damage the city of Bristol, and piles of stones (known as <a href="/wiki/Cairn" title="Cairn">cairns</a>) were created to prevent enemy aircraft using the hilltop as a landing site.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1960s, the tallest mast in the region at 293 metres (961 ft) above ground level, the <a href="/wiki/Mendip_transmitting_station" title="Mendip transmitting station">Mendip UHF television transmitter</a>, was installed on <a href="/wiki/Pen_Hill" title="Pen Hill">Pen Hill</a> near <a href="/wiki/Wells,_Somerset" title="Wells, Somerset">Wells</a>, one of the highest points of the Mendips.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The transmitter's antenna rises to almost 589 metres (1,932 ft) above sea level. </p><p>Since 2003, arguments have raged over plans to erect a <a href="/wiki/Wind_turbine" title="Wind turbine">wind turbine</a> near Chewton Mendip. The proposal was initially rejected by Mendip District Council, with the support of a range of local groups and organisations, on the grounds that the environmental impact on the edge of the AONB outweighed the amount of electricity which would be generated. In April 2006, however, a planning enquiry gave <a href="/wiki/Ecotricity" title="Ecotricity">Ecotricity</a> permission to build a 102 m (335 ft) turbine during the following year.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="AONB_status">AONB status</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mendip_Hills&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: AONB status"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mendiphillsaonb3.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Weathered blue circular plaque bearing the logo of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Mendiphillsaonb3.JPG/220px-Mendiphillsaonb3.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="202" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Mendiphillsaonb3.JPG/330px-Mendiphillsaonb3.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Mendiphillsaonb3.JPG/440px-Mendiphillsaonb3.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1293" data-file-height="1185" /></a><figcaption>Logo of the Mendip Hills AONB at <a href="/wiki/Burrington_Combe" title="Burrington Combe">Burrington Combe</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The western end of the Mendip Hills has, since 1972, been designated an <a href="/wiki/Area_of_Outstanding_Natural_Beauty" title="Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty">Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty</a> (AONB) under the <a href="/wiki/National_Parks_and_Access_to_the_Countryside_Act_1949" title="National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949">National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-desig_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-desig-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Mendip Society, which was formed in 1965, helps to raise awareness of this designation and protect the area.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The society runs a programme of guided walks and educational presentations. The society also has a small grants fund to assist communities with the conservation and enhancement of the landscape and to encourage its enjoyment and celebration.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As their landscapes have similar scenic qualities, AONBs may be compared to the <a href="/wiki/National_parks_of_England_and_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="National parks of England and Wales">national parks of England and Wales</a>. In contrast to national parks, which have their own authorities and legal power to prevent unsympathetic development, very few statutory duties are imposed on the local authorities within an AONB. However, further regulation and protection of AONBs was added by the <a href="/wiki/Countryside_and_Rights_of_Way_Act_2000" title="Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000">Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Mendip Hills Partnership, which performs an administrative role, includes the five local authorities that cover the AONB, statutory bodies such as <a href="/wiki/Natural_England" title="Natural England">Natural England</a>, together with parish councils and other organisations and groups that have an interest in the conservation and care of the area. The Mendip Hills AONB staff unit of the partnership is based at the <a href="/wiki/Charterhouse,_Somerset" title="Charterhouse, Somerset">Charterhouse</a> Centre in the heart of the AONB. The AONB Unit consists of four staff: a manager, project officer, support officer and part-time planning officer and fixed term project officers. They are supported by volunteer rangers.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2005 a proposal was submitted to the <a href="/wiki/Countryside_Agency" title="Countryside Agency">Countryside Agency</a> to extend the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to Steep Holm and Brean Down in the west and towards <a href="/wiki/Frome" title="Frome">Frome</a> in the east.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many of the villages on the Mendips have their own <a href="/wiki/Parish_councils_in_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Parish councils in England">parish councils</a>, which have some responsibility for local issues. Local people also elect councillors to district councils or to unitary authorities. The 198 km<sup>2</sup> (76 sq mi) of the AONB are split across four districts: <a href="/wiki/Mendip_District" title="Mendip District">Mendip District</a> Council 87.67 km<sup>2</sup> (33.8 sq mi), <a href="/wiki/Sedgemoor" title="Sedgemoor">Sedgemoor</a> District Council 34.03 km<sup>2</sup> (13.1 sq mi), <a href="/wiki/Bath_and_North_East_Somerset" title="Bath and North East Somerset">Bath and North East Somerset</a> Council 36.95 km<sup>2</sup> (14.3 sq mi), and <a href="/wiki/North_Somerset" title="North Somerset">North Somerset</a> Council 39.35 km<sup>2</sup> (15.2 sq mi).<sup id="cite_ref-AONBFAQ_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AONBFAQ-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mendip_Hills&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The population on the higher plateau is widely dispersed in small farms and hamlets, although rather than working in agriculture or forestry, most people now commute to employment in surrounding cities and towns. The largest village on the plateau on the western Mendips is <a href="/wiki/Priddy" title="Priddy">Priddy</a>, which had a population of 624 at the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2011" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2011">2011 census</a><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> along with the smaller hamlet of <a href="/wiki/Charterhouse,_Somerset" title="Charterhouse, Somerset">Charterhouse</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EN_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EN-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The larger villages and towns are on the lower slopes of the western hills, often in river valleys. <a href="/wiki/Axbridge" title="Axbridge">Axbridge</a>, with a population of 2,057,<sup id="cite_ref-somersetintelligence_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-somersetintelligence-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Cheddar,_Somerset" title="Cheddar, Somerset">Cheddar</a> (5,755),<sup id="cite_ref-somersetintelligence_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-somersetintelligence-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> both within the Sedgemoor district, together with the Mendip town of <a href="/wiki/Shepton_Mallet" title="Shepton Mallet">Shepton Mallet</a> (10,369)<sup id="cite_ref-Portrait10_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Portrait10-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the city of <a href="/wiki/Wells,_Somerset" title="Wells, Somerset">Wells</a> (10,636)<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> are along the southern border of the hills. The North Somerset parishes of <a href="/wiki/Blagdon" title="Blagdon">Blagdon</a> (1,116),<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the parishes of <a href="/wiki/Compton_Martin" title="Compton Martin">Compton Martin</a> (508),<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/East_Harptree" title="East Harptree">East Harptree</a> (644)<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/West_Harptree" title="West Harptree">West Harptree</a> (439),<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> lie along the northern edge. </p><p>Further east are the towns of <a href="/wiki/Midsomer_Norton" title="Midsomer Norton">Midsomer Norton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Radstock" title="Radstock">Radstock</a> and the village of <a href="/wiki/Paulton" title="Paulton">Paulton</a> (population 5,302)<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> within the <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authority" title="Unitary authority">unitary authority</a> of Bath and North East Somerset. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport_and_communications">Transport and communications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mendip_Hills&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Transport and communications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pensfordviaduct.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="stone viaduct with multiple arches, partly obscured by trees" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Pensfordviaduct.JPG/220px-Pensfordviaduct.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Pensfordviaduct.JPG/330px-Pensfordviaduct.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Pensfordviaduct.JPG/440px-Pensfordviaduct.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Pensford_Viaduct" title="Pensford Viaduct">Pensford Viaduct</a> (disused)</figcaption></figure> <p>In the middle of the 1st century, ancient tracks across the hills were superseded by the Roman <a href="/wiki/Fosse_Way" title="Fosse Way">Fosse Way</a>, from Bath to <a href="/wiki/Ilchester" title="Ilchester">Ilchester</a>, a branch of which served the Charterhouse lead mines.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Stratton-on-the-Fosse" title="Stratton-on-the-Fosse">Stratton-on-the-Fosse</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lydford-on-Fosse" title="Lydford-on-Fosse">Lydford-on-Fosse</a>, two villages of the Mendips, reflect the arrival of this new road. Much of the high plateau, however, remained uncultivated and unenclosed until the 18th century, resulting in many roads remaining as narrow winding lanes between high banks and hedges or stone walls. Where the tracks had their origins as <a href="/wiki/Drovers%27_road" title="Drovers' road">drovers roads</a>, they typically become open roads with wide verges.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The roads tend to follow the line of gorges and valleys, as at Cheddar Gorge. </p><p>The more major of the current roads often started as <a href="/wiki/Toll_road" title="Toll road">turnpikes</a> in the 16th century. These avoid the highest areas of the hills. To the north of the western part of the Mendips, the <a href="/wiki/A368_road" title="A368 road">A368</a> separates the hills from the <a href="/wiki/Chew_Valley" title="Chew Valley">Chew Valley</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while on the southern edge the <a href="/wiki/A371_road" title="A371 road">A371</a> similarly runs along the bottom of the scarp slope between the hills and the <a href="/wiki/Somerset_Levels" title="Somerset Levels">Somerset Levels</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The western end of the hills is crossed by the <a href="/wiki/M5_motorway" title="M5 motorway">M5 motorway</a> with access at junctions 21 and 22, along with the <a href="/wiki/A38_road" title="A38 road">A38</a>. Further east, and running almost north to south, are the <a href="/wiki/A37_road" title="A37 road">A37</a>, <a href="/wiki/A39_road" title="A39 road">A39</a>, <a href="/wiki/A36_road" title="A36 road">A36</a> and the <a href="/wiki/A361_road" title="A361 road">A361</a>. </p><p>During the late 19th and early 20th century, the <a href="/wiki/Bristol_and_North_Somerset_Railway" title="Bristol and North Somerset Railway">Bristol and North Somerset Railway</a> ran roughly parallel to the A37. Further south and west, the <a href="/wiki/Cheddar_Valley_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Cheddar Valley Line">Cheddar Valley Line</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wrington_Vale_Light_Railway" title="Wrington Vale Light Railway">Wrington Vale Light Railway</a>, branches of the <a href="/wiki/Bristol_and_Exeter_Railway" title="Bristol and Exeter Railway">Bristol and Exeter Railway</a>, served towns and villages from Cheddar to Wells.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the east, the <a href="/wiki/Somerset_and_Dorset_Joint_Railway" title="Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway">Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway</a> ran south from <a href="/wiki/Bath,_Somerset" title="Bath, Somerset">Bath</a> into <a href="/wiki/Dorset" title="Dorset">Dorset</a>, and also served Wells. These have all now closed, but <a href="/wiki/Mendip_Rail" title="Mendip Rail">Mendip Rail</a> has freight lines to carry limestone from the <a href="/wiki/Quarries_of_the_Mendip_Hills" title="Quarries of the Mendip Hills">quarries of the Mendip Hills</a>. There is also the <a href="/wiki/East_Somerset_Railway" title="East Somerset Railway">East Somerset Railway</a> which is an operational <a href="/wiki/Heritage_railway" title="Heritage railway">heritage railway</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Somerset_Coal_Canal" title="Somerset Coal Canal">Somerset Coal Canal</a> reached some of the pits of the <a href="/wiki/Somerset_Coalfield" title="Somerset Coalfield">Somerset Coalfield</a> in the eastern end of the Mendips.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quarrying">Quarrying</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mendip_Hills&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Quarrying"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Quarries_of_the_Mendip_Hills" title="Quarries of the Mendip Hills">Quarries of the Mendip Hills</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Whatleyquarry.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Large expanse of exposed grey rock. Fence in the foreground." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Whatleyquarry.jpg/220px-Whatleyquarry.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Whatleyquarry.jpg/330px-Whatleyquarry.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Whatleyquarry.jpg/440px-Whatleyquarry.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Western extension of <a href="/wiki/Whatley_Quarry" title="Whatley Quarry">Whatley Quarry</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In recent centuries the Mendips, like the Cotswolds to the north, have been quarried for stone to build the cities of Bath and Bristol, as well as smaller towns in Somerset. The quarries are now major suppliers of road stone to southern England,<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> among them producing around twelve million tonnes of limestone every year, employing over two thousand people, and turning over approximately £150 million per annum.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cheddar_gorge_from_aircraft_arp.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Jagged dark blue area of the gorge running form the bottom left to top right, surrounded by brown and green higher areas of land" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Cheddar_gorge_from_aircraft_arp.jpg/220px-Cheddar_gorge_from_aircraft_arp.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Cheddar_gorge_from_aircraft_arp.jpg/330px-Cheddar_gorge_from_aircraft_arp.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Cheddar_gorge_from_aircraft_arp.jpg/440px-Cheddar_gorge_from_aircraft_arp.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2839" data-file-height="1982" /></a><figcaption>Part of <a href="/wiki/Cheddar_Gorge" title="Cheddar Gorge">Cheddar Gorge</a>, seen from the air</figcaption></figure> <p>There are two main rock types on the Mendips: the Devonian sandstones visible around Blackdown and <a href="/wiki/Downhead" title="Downhead">Downhead</a> and the Carboniferous Limestones, which dominate the hills and surround the older rock formations.<sup id="cite_ref-aggregate_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aggregate-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are nine active quarries and a host of disused sites, several of which have been designated as <a href="/wiki/Site_of_Special_Scientific_Interest" title="Site of Special Scientific Interest">geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest</a> by English Nature. Because of the effect quarrying has on the environment and local communities, a campaign has been started to halt the creation of any new quarries and to restrict the activities and expansion of the existing ones.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sport,_leisure,_and_tourism"><span id="Sport.2C_leisure.2C_and_tourism"></span>Sport, leisure, and tourism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mendip_Hills&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Sport, leisure, and tourism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Mendips are home to a wide range of outdoor sports and leisure activities, including <a href="/wiki/Fox_hunting" title="Fox hunting">hunting</a>, caving, climbing, and <a href="/wiki/Abseiling" title="Abseiling">abseiling</a>. The rich variety of fauna and flora also makes it attractive for hillwalking and those interested in natural history.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mendip_Activity_Centre">Mendip Activity Centre</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mendip_Hills&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Mendip Activity Centre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mendip Activity Centre is set in the Mendip Hills and is one of the largest outdoor activity centres in the South West. It is a key part of the local tourism community bringing significant revenue and visitor numbers each year, welcoming 10,000s of visitors. They have a thriving outdoor education program with schools, delivering school residentials. Families and individuals take part in activities including skiing and snowboarding, climbing and abseiling, kayaking and paddle boarding, caving, archery, air rifle, tobogganing and disc golf.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their pop-up campsite, Mendip Basecamp, opened to the public in 2020 and in 2023 was named Gold Campsite at the Bristol, Bath and Somerset Tourism Awards.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Caving_and_cave_diving">Caving and cave diving</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mendip_Hills&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Caving and cave diving"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Caves_of_the_Mendip_Hills" title="Caves of the Mendip Hills">Caves of the Mendip Hills</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Goughscave.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Dark brown cave interior with water. A white vertically hanging stalagmite shown above a brown mound on the cave floor" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Goughscave.jpg/220px-Goughscave.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Goughscave.jpg/330px-Goughscave.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Goughscave.jpg/440px-Goughscave.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Stalagmites and stalactites in <a href="/wiki/Gough%27s_Cave" title="Gough's Cave">Gough's Cave</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Large areas of limestone on the Mendips have been worn away by water, making the hills a national centre for <a href="/wiki/Caving" title="Caving">caving</a>. Some of the caves have been known about since the establishment of the Mendip lead mining industry in Roman times. However, many have been discovered or explored only in the 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Specialist equipment and knowledge is required to visit the vast majority of the caves, but Cheddar Gorge and <a href="/wiki/Wookey_Hole_Caves" title="Wookey Hole Caves">Wookey Hole Caves</a> are two <a href="/wiki/Show_cave" title="Show cave">show caves</a> which are easily accessible to the public. The active Mendip Caving Group and other local caving organisations organise trips and continue to discover new caverns. </p><p>The Hills conceal the largest underground river system in Britain;<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> attempts to move from one cave to another through the underground rivers led to the development of <a href="/wiki/Cave_diving" title="Cave diving">cave diving</a> in Britain. The first cave dive was attempted at <a href="/wiki/Swildon%27s_Hole" title="Swildon's Hole">Swildon's Hole</a> in 1934, and the first successful dive was achieved the following year at Wookey Hole Caves, which has the deepest <a href="/wiki/Sump_(cave)" title="Sump (cave)">sump</a> in Britain at 76 m (250 ft).<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The cave complexes at <a href="/wiki/St._Dunstan%27s_Well_Catchment" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Dunstan's Well Catchment">St. Dunstan's Well Catchment</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Lamb_Leer" title="Lamb Leer">Lamb Leer</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Priddy_Caves" title="Priddy Caves">Priddy Caves</a><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> have been identified as Sites of Special Scientific Interest. The deepest cave in the Mendip Hills is <a href="/wiki/Charterhouse_Cave" title="Charterhouse Cave">Charterhouse Cave</a> with a vertical range of 220 m (722 ft).<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many caves in the Mendip area were excavated for archaeological and natural history studies by pioneer explorer <a href="/wiki/Herbert_E._Balch" title="Herbert E. Balch">Herbert E. Balch</a> and were photographed by the early caver Harry Savory at the start of the 20th century using <a href="/wiki/View_camera" title="View camera">cameras</a>, <a href="/wiki/Photographic_plate" title="Photographic plate">glass plates</a> and <a href="/wiki/Flash_powder" title="Flash powder">flash powder</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Walking">Walking</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mendip_Hills&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Walking"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mendip_Pub_Trail.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Wooden post with circular waymarker showing an arrow containing the logo of Butcombe Brewery" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Mendip_Pub_Trail.jpg/220px-Mendip_Pub_Trail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Mendip_Pub_Trail.jpg/330px-Mendip_Pub_Trail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Mendip_Pub_Trail.jpg/440px-Mendip_Pub_Trail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2288" data-file-height="1712" /></a><figcaption>A marker for the Mendip Pub Trail at Charterhouse</figcaption></figure> <p>Several sites on the Mendips are designated as <a href="/wiki/Open_Country" title="Open Country">open access land</a>, and there are many <a href="/wiki/Trail" title="Trail">footpaths</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rights_of_way_in_England_and_Wales" title="Rights of way in England and Wales">bridleways</a> that are generally clearly marked. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Limestone_Link" title="Limestone Link">Limestone Link</a> is a 58-kilometre (36 mi) <a href="/wiki/Long-distance_footpaths_in_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom">long-distance footpath</a> from the Mendips to the Cotswolds, and the <a href="/wiki/Mendip_Way" title="Mendip Way">Mendip Way</a> covers 80 km (50 mi) from <a href="/wiki/Weston-super-Mare" title="Weston-super-Mare">Weston-super-Mare</a> to Frome. The western section runs from the <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Channel" title="Bristol Channel">Bristol Channel</a> at <a href="/wiki/Uphill_Cliff" title="Uphill Cliff">Uphill Cliff</a>, affording views over the Somerset Levels, crosses the central Mendip plateau leading down to Cheddar Gorge, and then continues to Wells and Frome.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The much longer <a href="/wiki/Monarch%27s_Way" title="Monarch's Way">Monarch's Way</a> runs for 990 km (620 mi), from <a href="/wiki/Worcester,_England" title="Worcester, England">Worcester</a> to <a href="/wiki/Shoreham-by-Sea" title="Shoreham-by-Sea">Shoreham-by-Sea</a> in West Sussex. It closely follows the route taken by <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II</a> after his defeat at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Worcester" title="Battle of Worcester">Battle of Worcester</a> in 1651. The route enters Somerset near Chewton Mendip and crosses the Mendip Hills heading for Wells.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A shorter local path, the 72-kilometre (45 mi) long Mendip Pub Trail, connects six pubs owned by Butcombe Brewery. The trail runs from <a href="/wiki/Hinton_Blewett" title="Hinton Blewett">Hinton Blewett</a> through Priddy, Axbridge, <a href="/wiki/Bleadon" title="Bleadon">Bleadon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rowberrow" title="Rowberrow">Rowberrow</a>, and Compton Martin.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Motor_sport">Motor sport</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mendip_Hills&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Motor sport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Various forms of oval short-track racing, including F1 and F2 <a href="/wiki/British_stock_car_racing" class="mw-redirect" title="British stock car racing">stock cars</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> have taken place at <a href="/wiki/Mendips_Raceway" title="Mendips Raceway">Mendips Raceway</a> since 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The track is located on Warrens Hill Road, on the rim of <a href="/wiki/Batts_Combe_quarry" title="Batts Combe quarry">Batts Combe quarry</a> between <a href="/wiki/Shipham" title="Shipham">Shipham</a> and Charterhouse. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_the_arts">In the arts</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mendip_Hills&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: In the arts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hardy" title="Thomas Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a> described the Mendips as "a range of limestone rocks stretching from the shores of the Bristol Channel into the middle of Somersetshire", and several of his books refer to the Mendips or sites on the hills.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to legend, <a href="/wiki/Augustus_Toplady" title="Augustus Toplady">Augustus Montague Toplady</a> was inspired to write the words of the hymn "<a href="/wiki/Rock_of_Ages_(Christian_hymn)" title="Rock of Ages (Christian hymn)">Rock of Ages</a>" while sheltering under a rock in Burrington Combe during a <a href="/wiki/Thunderstorm" title="Thunderstorm">thunderstorm</a> in 1763; there is a metal plaque marking the site.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Toplady_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Toplady-95"><span 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">3 May</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Toplady%2C+Augustus+Montague+%281740%E2%80%931778%29&rft.btitle=Oxford+Dictionary+of+National+Biography&rft.edition=online&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2004&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F27555&rft.aulast=Pollard&rft.aufirst=Arthur&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxforddnb.com%2Fview%2Farticle%2F27555&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMendip+Hills" class="Z3988"></span> <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(Subscription or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public">UK public library membership</a> required.)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Toplady-95"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Toplady_95-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStaff_writer2009" class="citation news cs1">Staff writer (7 June 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2009/jun/07/rock-ages-walking-guides">"The original Rock of Ages, Burrington Combe, Somerset"</a>. <i>Guardian News and Media</i>. 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Newton Abbot: David & Charles. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7153-7297-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7153-7297-5"><bdi>978-0-7153-7297-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Old+Mendip&rft.place=Newton+Abbot&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=David+%26+Charles&rft.date=1971&rft.isbn=978-0-7153-7297-5&rft.aulast=Atthill&rft.aufirst=Robin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMendip+Hills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHardcastleNisbet2008" class="citation book cs1">Hardcastle, Jim; Nisbet, Merryn (2008). <i>Lifelines: The Vital Dry Stone Walls of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty</i>. Mendip Hills AONB Service. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-9559110-0-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-9559110-0-2"><bdi>978-0-9559110-0-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lifelines%3A+The+Vital+Dry+Stone+Walls+of+the+Mendip+Hills+Area+of+Outstanding+Natural+Beauty&rft.pub=Mendip+Hills+AONB+Service&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-9559110-0-2&rft.aulast=Hardcastle&rft.aufirst=Jim&rft.au=Nisbet%2C+Merryn&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMendip+Hills" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mendip_Hills&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; 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title="Compton Bishop">Webbington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wells,_Somerset" title="Wells, Somerset">Wells</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Harptree" title="West Harptree">West Harptree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westbury-sub-Mendip" title="Westbury-sub-Mendip">Westbury-sub-Mendip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winscombe" title="Winscombe">Winscombe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wookey_Hole" title="Wookey Hole">Wookey Hole</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rivers and lakes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/River_Axe_(Bristol_Channel)" title="River Axe (Bristol Channel)">River Axe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheddar_Yeo" title="Cheddar Yeo">Cheddar Yeo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Chew" title="River Chew">River Chew</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congresbury_Yeo" title="Congresbury Yeo">River Yeo</a></li> <li><a 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Swallet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aveline%27s_Hole" title="Aveline's Hole">Aveline's Hole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shute_Shelve_Cavern" title="Shute Shelve Cavern">Axbridge Ochre Mine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banwell_Caves" title="Banwell Caves">Banwell Caves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banwell_Ochre_Caves" title="Banwell Ochre Caves">Banwell Ochre Caves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burrington_Combe" title="Burrington Combe">Burrington Combe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charterhouse_Cave" title="Charterhouse Cave">Charterhouse Cave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheddar_Gorge" title="Cheddar Gorge">Cheddar Gorge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Compton_Martin_Ochre_Mine" title="Compton Martin Ochre Mine">Compton Martin Ochre Mine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cox%27s_Cave" title="Cox's Cave">Cox's Cave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastwater_Cavern" title="Eastwater Cavern">Eastwater Cavern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ebbor_Gorge" title="Ebbor Gorge">Ebbor Gorge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairy_Cave_Quarry" title="Fairy Cave Quarry">Fairy Cave Quarry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GB_Cave" title="GB Cave">GB Cave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goatchurch_Cavern" title="Goatchurch Cavern">Goatchurch Cavern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gough%27s_Cave" title="Gough's Cave">Gough's Cave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunter%27s_Hole" title="Hunter's Hole">Hunter's Hole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamb_Leer" title="Lamb Leer">Lamb Leer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longwood_Swallet" title="Longwood Swallet">Longwood Swallet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manor_Farm_Swallet" title="Manor Farm Swallet">Manor Farm Swallet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Picken%27s_Hole" title="Picken's Hole">Picken's Hole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre%27s_Pot" title="Pierre's Pot">Pierre's Pot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priddy_Caves" title="Priddy Caves">Priddy Caves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Read%27s_Cavern" title="Read's Cavern">Read's Cavern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reservoir_Hole" title="Reservoir Hole">Reservoir Hole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhino_Rift" title="Rhino Rift">Rhino Rift</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rod%27s_Pot" title="Rod's Pot">Rod's Pot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shatter_Cave" title="Shatter Cave">Shatter Cave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shute_Shelve_Cavern" title="Shute Shelve Cavern">Shute Shelve Cavern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidcot_Swallet" title="Sidcot Swallet">Sidcot Swallet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Cuthbert%27s_Swallet" title="St Cuthbert's Swallet">St Cuthbert's Swallet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Dunstan%27s_Well_Catchment" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Dunstan's Well Catchment">St. Dunstan's Well Catchment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stoke_Lane_Slocker" title="Stoke Lane Slocker">Stoke Lane Slocker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swildon%27s_Hole" title="Swildon's Hole">Swildon's Hole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thrupe_Lane_Swallet" title="Thrupe Lane Swallet">Thrupe Lane Swallet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyning%27s_Barrow_Swallet" title="Tyning's Barrow Swallet">Tyning's Barrow Swallet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upper_Flood_Swallet" title="Upper Flood Swallet">Upper Flood Swallet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W/L_Cave" title="W/L Cave">W/L Cave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wookey_Hole_Caves" title="Wookey Hole Caves">Wookey Hole Caves</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Quarries_of_the_Mendip_Hills" title="Quarries of the Mendip Hills">Quarries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Batts_Combe_quarry" title="Batts Combe quarry">Batts Combe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Callow_Rock_quarry" title="Callow Rock quarry">Callow Rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cloford_Quarry" title="Cloford Quarry">Cloford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cloud_Quarry" title="Cloud Quarry">Cloud</a></li> <li><a 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Works</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viaduct_Quarry" title="Viaduct Quarry">Viaduct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whatley_Quarry" title="Whatley Quarry">Whatley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windsor_Hill_Quarry" title="Windsor Hill Quarry">Windsor Hill</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Site_of_Special_Scientific_Interest" title="Site of Special Scientific Interest">SSSIs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asham_Wood" title="Asham Wood">Asham Wood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Axbridge_Hill_and_Fry%27s_Hill" title="Axbridge Hill and Fry's Hill">Axbridge Hill and Fry's Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banwell_Caves" title="Banwell Caves">Banwell Caves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banwell_Ochre_Caves" title="Banwell Ochre Caves">Banwell Ochre Caves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barns_Batch_Spinney" title="Barns Batch Spinney">Barns Batch Spinney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blagdon_Lake" title="Blagdon Lake">Blagdon Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bleadon_Hill" title="Bleadon Hill">Bleadon Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brimble_Pit_and_Cross_Swallet_Basins" title="Brimble Pit and Cross Swallet Basins">Brimble Pit and Cross Swallet Basins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burledge_Hill" title="Burledge Hill">Burledge Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burrington_Combe" title="Burrington Combe">Burrington Combe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chancellor%27s_Farm" title="Chancellor's Farm">Chancellor's Farm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheddar_Complex" title="Cheddar Complex">Cheddar Complex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheddar_Reservoir" title="Cheddar Reservoir">Cheddar Reservoir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheddar_Wood" title="Cheddar Wood">Cheddar Wood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chew_Valley_Lake" title="Chew Valley Lake">Chew Valley Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cloford_Quarry" title="Cloford 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href="/wiki/Surrey_Hills_National_Landscape" title="Surrey Hills National Landscape">Surrey Hills</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Former: <i><a href="/wiki/East_Hampshire_AONB" title="East Hampshire AONB">East Hampshire</a></i><sup>1</sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/South_Hampshire_Coast" title="South Hampshire Coast">South Hampshire Coast</a></i><sup>2</sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sussex_Downs_AONB" title="Sussex Downs AONB">Sussex Downs</a></i><sup>1</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/South_West_England" title="South West England">South West</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blackdown_Hills" title="Blackdown Hills">Blackdown Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cranborne_Chase_and_West_Wiltshire_Downs" title="Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs">Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs</a></li> <li><a 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<li><a href="/wiki/Wye_Valley" title="Wye Valley">Wye Valley</a><sup>3</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(region)" title="West Midlands (region)">West Midlands</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cannock_Chase" title="Cannock Chase">Cannock Chase</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cotswolds" title="Cotswolds">Cotswolds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malvern_Hills" title="Malvern Hills">Malvern Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Hills_National_Landscape" title="Shropshire Hills National Landscape">Shropshire Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wye_Valley" title="Wye Valley">Wye Valley</a><sup>3</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_and_the_Humber" title="Yorkshire and the Humber">Yorkshire and<br />the Humber</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Forest_of_Bowland" title="Forest of Bowland">Forest of Bowland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howardian_Hills" title="Howardian Hills">Howardian Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_Wolds" title="Lincolnshire Wolds">Lincolnshire Wolds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nidderdale_National_Landscape" title="Nidderdale National Landscape">Nidderdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Pennines" title="North Pennines">North Pennines</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li><sup>1</sup> Now part of <a href="/wiki/South_Downs_National_Park" title="South Downs National Park">South Downs National Park</a></li> <li><sup>2</sup> Now part of <a href="/wiki/New_Forest#New_Forest_National_Park" title="New Forest">New Forest National Park</a></li> <li><sup>3</sup> Partly in <a 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title="Dulverton">Dulverton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frome" title="Frome">Frome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glastonbury" title="Glastonbury">Glastonbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highbridge,_Somerset" title="Highbridge, Somerset">Highbridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilminster" title="Ilminster">Ilminster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keynsham" title="Keynsham">Keynsham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langport" title="Langport">Langport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midsomer_Norton" title="Midsomer Norton">Midsomer Norton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minehead" title="Minehead">Minehead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nailsea" title="Nailsea">Nailsea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Petherton" title="North Petherton">North Petherton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portishead,_Somerset" title="Portishead, Somerset">Portishead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radstock" title="Radstock">Radstock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shepton_Mallet" title="Shepton Mallet">Shepton Mallet</a></li> <li><a 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