Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

318 Trails 104 POIs 9 Peaks 3 Campsites 9 Picnic Sites 15 Viewpoints

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Description

The Mendip Hills (commonly called the Mendips) is a range of limestone hills to the south of Bristol and Bath in Somerset, England. Running east to west between Weston-super-Mare and Frome, the hills overlook the Somerset Levels to the south and the Chew Valley and other tributaries of the Avon to the north. The hills give their name to the local government district of Mendip, which administers most of the area. The higher, western part of the hills, covering 198 km2 (76 sq mi) has been designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), which gives it a level of protection comparable to a national park. Several sites on the Mendips are designated as open access land, and there are many footpaths and bridleways that are generally clearly marked. The Limestone Link is a 58-kilometre (36 mi) long-distance footpath from the Mendips to the Cotswolds, and the Mendip Way covers 80 km (50 mi) from Weston-super-Mare to Frome. The western section runs from the Bristol Channel at Uphill Cliff, affording views over the Somerset Levels, crosses the central Mendip plateau leading down to Cheddar Gorge, and then continues to Wells and Frome. The much longer Monarch's Way runs for 990 km (620 mi), from Worcester to Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex. It closely follows the route taken by Charles II after his defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The route enters Somerset near Chewton Mendip and crosses the Mendip Hills heading for Wells. A shorter local path, the 72-kilometre (45 mi) long Mendip Pub Trail, connects six pubs owned by Butcombe Brewery. The trail runs from Hinton Blewett through Priddy, Axbridge, Bleadon, Rowberrow, and Compton Martin.

Trails in the Hikepack map

Back Lane
Bridewell Lane
Callow Drove
Copthorne Lane
Dag Hole
Dursdon Drove
Green Lane
Holloway Lane
Hutton Millenium Walk
Jacob's Ladder
Leaze Lane
Limestone Link
Limestone link
Lyncombe Lane
Mapleton Lane
Middle Down Drove
Monarch's Way
New Cut
Peace Close Lane
Pylewell Lane
Stilemead Lane
Stoneyard Lane
The Batch
The Butcombe Trail
The Carriageway
The Mendip Trail
Two Rivers Way
Villice Lane
West Mendip Way
Whistley Lane
Winscombe Drove

Attractions in the Hikepack map

Alcove Seat
Aveline's Hole (cave)
Banwell Castle
Banwell Garden Centre
Banwell Hill
Barton Cave
Bath Swallet
Beacon Batch
Beryl
Blackmoor Swallet
Blagdon Post Office and Store
Bleadon Cavern
Bone Cave
Bos Swallet
Broadway Hill
Burledge Hill
Café Gorge
Carcass Cave
Castle Rock
Charterhouse Cave
Cheddar Cheese Co
Cheddar Gorge & Caves
Cheddar Man and the Cannibals
Cheddar Viewing Tower
Chew Valley Picnic Area Two
Cox's Cave and The Crystal Quest
Cox's Mill Hotel
Crook Peak
Cuckoo Cleeves (cave)
Denny's hole
Dolebury Levvy (mine)
Drunkard's Hole
Eaker Hill
East Harptree Village Shop
East Twin Swallet
Eastwater Cavern
Foxes Hole
GB cave
Goatchurch Cavern
Gough's Cave
Harptree Court
Hook's Hill
Horrington Hill
Hunter's Hole
Lamb's Leer Cavern
Lillypool Farm
Lionel's Hole
Longwood Swallet (cave)
Lower Milton Caravan And Camping Site
Loxton Hill
Lyncombe Lodge
Mangle Hole
Manor Farm Swallet (cave)
Niver Hill
Niver North Top
Pebble Summerhouse
Pen Hill
Pierre's Pot
Pinetree Pot
Priddy Green Sink
Read's Cavern
Rhino Rift (cave)
Rod's Pot
Sandford Hill
Sandford Levvy
Sandy Hole
Sheep Hurdles
Shute Shelve Cavern
Shute Shelve Hill
Sidcot Arms (Premier Inn & Brewers Fayre)
Sidcot Swallet
Sludge Pit Hole (cave)
Springhead
St. Cuthbert's Swallet
Stalactite Cave
Swildon's Hole Cavern
The Burrington inn
The Caves
The Stable Tea Rooms
Tim's Well
Triple Hole
Tyning's Barrows Swallet
Upper Flood Swallet
Various caves
Waterfall Cafe
Waterwheel Swallet
Wavering Down
Westclose Hill
White Cliff Cave
White Hill
Wireless Station
Woodford Hill
Wookey Hole Caves
Wookey Hole Caves And Mill
Yeo Valley Canteen
Yoxter

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Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from Viewfinderpanoramas.org (Jonathan de Ferranti). Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©George Evans https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crook_Peak_towards_Compton_Hill.jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)