Wells, England : Cathedral and tour
Take a short trip around Wells, one woman and her camera to give you a personal tour on the best sites to see in the smallest city in the South West of the UK, Wells. From the Cathedral to Vicar's close and Bishops Palace- Wells is a great day out!
Places to visit;
Wells Cathedral
Wells and Mendip Museum
Bishops Palace
Wells Farmers Market
Places to stay;
White Hart Inn
Places to eat;
The Good Earth Restaurant
World War 1 trench Wells and Mendip museum in Wells museum
The WWI trench exhibit at the Wells and Mendip museum in Wells
Places to see in ( Wells - UK )
Places to see in ( Wells - UK )
Wells is a cathedral city and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset, on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills. Wells has had city status since medieval times, because of the presence of Wells Cathedral. Often described as England's smallest city, Wells is second only to the City of London in area and population, though not part of a larger urban agglomeration.
Wells is named from three wells dedicated to Saint Andrew, one in the market place and two within the grounds of the Bishop's Palace and cathedral. A small Roman settlement surrounded them, which grew in importance and size under the Anglo-Saxons when King Ine of Wessex founded a minster church there in 704. The community became a trading centre based on cloth making and Wells is notable for its 17th century involvement in both the English Civil War and Monmouth Rebellion. In the 19th century, transport infrastructure improved with stations on three different railway lines. However, since 1964 the city has been without a railway link.
The cathedral and the associated religious and medieval architectural history provide much of the employment. The city of Wells has a variety of sporting and cultural activities and houses several schools including The Blue School, a state coeducational comprehensive school that was founded in 1641, and the independent Wells Cathedral School, that was founded possibly as early as 909 and is one of the five established musical schools for school-age children in the United Kingdom. The historic architecture of the city has also been used as a location for filming an increasing number of movies and television programmes.
Wells lies at the foot of the southern escarpment of the Mendip Hills where they meet the Somerset Levels. The hills are largely made of carboniferous limestone, which is quarried at several nearby sites. In the 1960s, the tallest mast in the region, the Mendip UHF television transmitter, was installed on Pen Hill above Wells, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) from the centre the city.
Wells is situated at the junction of three numbered routes. The A39 goes north-east to Bath and south-west to Glastonbury and Bridgwater. The A371 goes north-west to Cheddar and east to Shepton Mallet. The B3139 goes west to Highbridge and north-east to Radstock. Wells is served by FirstGroup bus services to Bristol, Bristol Temple Meads, Bath, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Yeovil, Street, Bridgwater, Taunton, Burnham on Sea and Weston-super-Mare, as well as providing some local service. Some National Express coach services call at Wells. The bus station is in Princes Road. The Mendip Way and Monarch's Way long-distance footpaths pass through the city, as does National Cycle Route 3.
Webberbus connects Wells to Weston-super-Mare, Highbridge and Bridgwater.
Wells had two stations which were closed by the Beeching Axe in the 1960s such as Wells (Tucker Street) railway station and Wells (Priory Road) railway station. The nearest head of steel is located on the East Somerset Railway at Mendip Vale. Wells and Mendip Museum includes many historical artefacts from the city and surrounding Mendip Hills. Wells is part of the West Country Carnival circuit.
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Wells in Somerset August 2013
Wells, the smallest city in England and the only in Somerset.
28th of August 2013
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Mendip Classic Car Rally May 2017
Drive by of the Duke of Cumberland, Holcombe of some of the cars in the Mendip Vintage Car Rally in May 2017.
A day in Wells, Somerset
A day out in Wells, Somerset while we where visiting family back home in England.
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A Day In Wells.
A Day In Wells (13.02.2016)
♫ State of Undress - The Black Hills of Mendip
Mendip Classic Car Run 8th May 2016
A lovely show of classic cars
Mining in Somerset, 1960's - Film 6677
The Somerset Coal field: Map showing Somerset pits, view of countryside, ....... Hills, Radstock, Midsommer Norton ruins. Dried up Somerset coal canal, railway. Jolly Collier pub. Man talks of pit history, working and closed. Working and derelict pits. Countryside shots, view of the grave-yard, traffic at a level crossing, woman pushing pram down street, cyclist. Norton-Radstock Urban District Council. Mis-identified engineer, who is more likely Ron Bartlett, Labour Party chairman of the Norton Radstock District Council. Midsomer Norton, shopping centre. Houses under construction, different streets full of houses. Girls playing rounders outside Secondary modern school, primary children running around playground. new technical college. People (many women) leaving works factory. Man in allotments. Woman with umbrella and shopping bag on wheels. Car park. New colliery buildings under construction. Coal being mined, conveyer belt, men underground. Old miners. Row of houses. Old man reading paper. Old lady washing hands. Close up of wellies/wellington boots. Man planting young tree. Dirt from colliery being emptied into valley. O.S. map showing pits. Miners arrive from other areas. Council houses, chalet homes. Rugby. Football, pitch being mowed. People talking to camera. Old steam engine. View of town.
376 Bus from Pensford to Wells, Somerset
Pensford to Wells, Somerset by bus
Bus no 376 from Pensford to Wells, Somerset, England
The new mendip explorer bus 11.12.2015
arriving at street town centre the 376 bus runs from street to bristol via wells bus station
Horseshoes with Rings - A Study of Bats in Devon Caves 1958
Horseshoes with Rings - A Study of Bats in Devon Caves 1958
This was one of two very similar films made by John Hooper, showing pioneering work studying bats in Devon Caves. It was shot at 16 f.p.s and the other films, “Rings on Their Wings” was shot at 24 f.p.s. Filmed between 23/7/1957 and 6/12/1958.
The locations were ;- Virtuous Lady Mine, (Tavy Valley), Rock House Cave, Rift Cave, Reeds Cave Buckfastleigh, Underground stone quarry tunnels at Beer, roof of Hawson Court (Buckfastleigh), Roof of barn in Rock House Quarry (Buckfastleigh).
The cavers are: Chris and Martin Reynolds, Paul Jeffery, Wilfred Joint, Tim Morland, Win, Alison and John Hooper.
The original film of this film and others made by John Hooper were donated to the Wells and Mendip Museum by Alison Moody, John’s daughter and held in their archive.
Ref. Correspondence between Hooper and Hewins 1996. Copy in Wells and Mendip Museum.
Wells and Mendip Museum / UBSS Cave Cine Archive No. 46.
Filmed on 16mm cine film.
Length 18 minutes 16 seconds.
From the Mendip Cave Registry & Archive Film Collection. For more information please visit
Mendip Vintage & Classic Tour 2014
Entrants to the 20th Mendip & Vintage & Classic Tour enjoyed an 85 mile drive through picturesque Somerset countryside starting at Wookey Hole Caves. The lunch stop was at Haynes Motor Museum at Sparkford, and the cars finished the tour in the spectacular setting of Wells Cathedral where they parked on the Cathedral Green.
Wookey Hole Caves Tour, Somerset, UK
A Tour around the Wookey Hole Caves in Somerset, UK.
Wookey Hole Caves are a series of limestone caverns, show cave and tourist attraction in the village of Wookey Hole on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset, England. The River Axe flows through the cave. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for both biological and geological reasons. Wookey Hole cave is a solutional cave, one that is formed through a process of weathering in which the natural acid in groundwater dissolves the rocks. Some of the water originates as rain that flows into streams on impervious rocks on the plateau before sinking at the limestone boundary into cave systems such as Swildon's Hole, Eastwater Cavern and St Cuthbert's Swallet; the remainder is rain that percolates directly through the limestone. The caves are at a constant temperature of 11 °C (52 °F).
The caves have been used by humans for around 45,000 years, demonstrated by the discovery of tools from the Palaeolithic period, along with the fossilised animal remains. Evidence of Stone and Iron Age occupation continued into Roman Britain. A corn grinding mill operated on the resurgent waters of the River Axe as early as 1086. The waters of the river are used in a handmade paper mill, the oldest extant in Britain, which began operations circa 1610.[4] The low temperature of the caves means that they can be used for maturing Cheddar cheese.
The caves are the site of the first cave dives in Britain which were undertaken by Jack Sheppard and Graham Balcombe. Since the 1930s divers have explored the extensive network of chambers developing breathing apparatus and novel techniques in the process. The full extent of the cave system is still unknown with approximately 4,000 metres (13,000 ft), including 25 chambers, having been explored. Part of the cave system opened as a show cave in 1927 following exploratory work by Herbert E. Balch. As a tourist attraction it has been owned by Madame Tussauds and, most recently, the circus owner Gerry Cottle. The cave is noted for the Witch of Wookey Hole – a roughly human shaped stalagmite that legend says is a witch turned to stone by a monk from Glastonbury. It has also been used as a location for film and television productions.
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Hubschrauber Museum in England
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Gough's Cave & Cox's Cave
From Wikipedia: Gough's Cave is located in Cheddar Gorge on the Mendip Hills, in Cheddar, Somerset, England. The cave is 115 m (377 ft) deep and is 3.405 km (2.12 mi) long, and contains a variety of large chambers and rock formations. It contains the Cheddar Yeo, the largest underground river system in Britain.
Cox's Cave is in Cheddar Gorge on the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. It is open to the public as a show cave. The cave is named after mill owner George Cox who discovered it in 1837, while quarrying limestone for a new building. Cox immediately opened it as a show cave the following year and ran it as a private enterprise until landowner, Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath, took it over at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Somerset Routes: Castle Line
Wells - Shepton Mallet - Frome -- Mells - Farleigh Hungerford
Over 30 miles of scenic roads take you to some of the finest castles, buildings and palaces in the county. From England's smallest city, to Somerset's border with Bath, the Castle Line is a must-see route.
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Places to see in ( Bridgwater - UK )
Places to see in ( Bridgwater - UK )
Bridgwater is a market town and civil parish in Somerset, England. Bridgwater is at the edge of the Somerset Levels, in level and well-wooded country; to the north are the Mendips and to the west the Quantock hills.
Bridgwater lies along both sides of the River Parrett, 10 miles (16 km) from its mouth, has been a major port and trading centre and maintains a large industrial base. Bridgwater is linked to Taunton by the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal. Bridgwater is between two junctions of the M5 motorway and Bridgwater railway station is on the main railway line between Bristol and Taunton.
Historically, the town of Bridgwater had a politically radical tendency. The Battle of Sedgemoor, where the Monmouth Rebellion was finally crushed in 1685, was fought nearby. Notable buildings include the Church of St Mary and the house in Blake Street, largely restored, which was the birthplace of Admiral Blake in 1598, and is now the Blake Museum. The town of Bridgwater has an arts centre and plays host to the annual Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival.
Bridgwater is home to the Somerset Brick and Tile Museum, built on part of the former Barham Brothers site (brick and tile manufacturers between 1857 and 1965). Castle House was built in 1851 and was one of the first to make extensive use of concrete demonstrating an innovative interpretation of traditional masonry features in concrete.
A house in Blake Street, largely restored, is believed to be the birthplace of Robert Blake in 1598, and is now the Blake Museum. It was built in the late 15th or early 16th century, and has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building. His statue from 1898 by F. W. Pomeroy has been repositioned from the front of the Corn Exchange to face down Cornhill. The public library by E Godfrey Page dates from 1905.
Sydenham House was previously a manor estate built in the early 16th century, which was refronted and rebuilt after 1613. Its owners were on the losing side in the Civil War and again in the Monmouth Rebellion.
As trade expanded during the Industrial Revolution, Bridgwater was linked to Taunton by the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal (1827), although initially it ran from a basin south of Bridgwater at Huntworth. The Drove Bridge, which marks the current extent of the Port of Bridgwater is the nearest to the mouth and the newest road bridge to cross the river. With a span of 184 feet (56 m), the bridge was constructed as part of the Bridgwater Northern Distributor road scheme (1992), and provides a navigable channel which is 66 feet (20 m) wide with 8.2 feet (2.5 m) headroom at normal spring high tides.
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Weston-super-Mare Town Centre by bike.
Weston-super-Mare Town Centre by bike.