Cheddar is a large village and civil parish in the Sedgemoor district of the English county of Somerset. It is situated on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Wells. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Nyland and Bradley Cross. The village, which has its own parish council, has a population of 5,755 and the parish has an acreage of 8,592 acres (3,477 ha) as of 1961.
Population: 5,724
Latitude: 51° 16' 31.33" N
Longitude: -2° 46' 35.83" W
Masbury railway station was a small isolated station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway's main line between Evercreech Junction and Bath. It was situated to the north of Shepton Mallet and near the summit of the line as it crossed the Mendip H…
Lulsgate Plateau is the name given to the Carboniferous Limestone hills which form a northern outlier of the Mendip Hills, southwest of Bristol, England, approximately 600 feet (180 m) above sea level, which has been occupied since prehistoric times…
Longwood Swallet is a cave near Charterhouse, in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
This List of monastic houses in Bristol includes abbeys, priories, friaries and other monastic religious houses in Bristol.
Kelston was a small railway station about four miles west of Bath on the Midland Railway's Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line. It lies across the fields from the village of Kelston and nearer the village of Saltford on the other side of the River Avo…
Jacob's Well in Cliftonwood, Bristol, England is an early mediaeval structure thought to be a Jewish ritual bath.
Gurney Slade quarry, grid reference ST626497 is a limestone quarry near Gurney Slade between Binegar and Holcombe, on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England.
The medieval Glastonbury canal was built in about the middle of the 10th century to link the River Brue at Northover (51°08′18″N2°44′09″W) with Glastonbury Abbey, a distance of about 1.75 kilometres (1,900 yd). Its initial purpose is believed to be…
Friar's Oven (grid reference ST592431) is a 4.0 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, notified in 1989.
Equestrian statue of William III is a historic statue in the centre of Queen Square in Bristol, England.
Emborough is a village and civil parish 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Shepton Mallet, and 5 miles (8.0 km) north east of Wells, in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. It adjoins the parish of Ston Easton.
Edington Burtle railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, and served the village of Edington, Somerset, UK. Originally named Edington Road, with the village two miles away, it became in 1890 the junction for the Bridgwa…
Chilcompton railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway at Chilcompton in the county of Somerset in England. Opened on 20 July 1874, the station consisted of two platforms, the building on the down platform having a canopy…
Charterhouse Cave, on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, is the deepest cave in southern England.
Carmel Christian School is an independent school in Brislington, Bristol, England founded in 2000. It has a Christian basis, and provides an all-through education, encompassing pre-school and secondary school.
Callow Rock quarry is a limestone quarry located between Cheddar and Shipham on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England.
BARB Search & Rescue (formed as the Burnham Area Rescue Boat in 1992) is a registered charity that operates two life-saving rescue hovercrafts and an inshore rescue boat in the Bridgwater Bay area. BARB Search & Rescue is a voluntary search and resc…
Brockley Combe is a wooded combe near the village of Brockley in North Somerset, England.