Places to see in ( Cheddar - UK )
Places to see in ( Cheddar - UK )
Cheddar is a large village and civil parish in the Sedgemoor district of the English county of Somerset. Cheddar is situated on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, 9 miles north-west of Wells. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Nyland and Bradley Cross.
Cheddar Gorge, on the northern edge of the village, is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom and includes several show caves, including Gough's Cave. The gorge has been a centre of human settlement since Neolithic times including a Saxon palace. It has a temperate climate and provides a unique geological and biological environment that has been recognised by the designation of several Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
It is also the site of several limestone quarries. The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese and has been a centre for strawberry growing. The crop was formerly transported on the Cheddar Valley rail line, which closed in the late 1960s but is now a cycle path. The village is now a major tourist destination with several cultural and community facilities, including the Cheddar Show Caves Museum.
The area is underlain by Black Rock slate, Burrington Oolite and Clifton Down Limestone of the Carboniferous Limestone Series, which contain ooliths and fossil debris on top of Old Red Sandstone, and by Dolomitic Conglomerate of the Keuper. Cheddar Gorge, which is located on the edge of the village, is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom. The gorge is the site of the Cheddar Caves, where Cheddar Man was found in 1903.
Cheddar Reservoir is a near-circular artificial reservoir operated by Bristol Water. Dating from the 1930s, it has a capacity of 135 million gallons. Cheddar Wood and the smaller Macall's Wood form a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest from what remains of the wood of the Bishops of Bath and Wells in the 13th century and of King Edmund the Magnificent's wood in the 10th.
Close to the village and gorge are Batts Combe quarry and Callow Rock quarry, two of the active Quarries of the Mendip Hills where limestone is still extracted. It was on the Cheddar Valley line, a railway line that was opened in 1869 and closed in 1963. It became known as The Strawberry Line because of the large volume of locally-grown strawberries that it carried. It ran from Yatton railway station through Cheddar to Wells (Tucker Street) railway station and joined the East Somerset Railway to make a through route via Shepton Mallet (High Street) railway station to Witham.
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Nunney Village Somerset England.
Nunney is a village and civil parish near Frome in the Mendip local government district within the English county of Somerset. The parish includes the hamlet of Holwell.
The name of the village comes from Old English and means Nunna's island.
Today, the tourist attractions are the ruins of Nunney Castle, a historic church, and ducks wandering the streets near the river. The village hall is host to Nunney Acoustic Cafe which provides live music, homemade food, a bar and children's art activities on the second Sunday of each month (except July and August).
On 30 September 2007, Nunney was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 report, asking whether the prettiest village in England is a place where we can learn how to mend our broken society.
Evidence of Roman settlement has been provided by the discovery of a hoard of Roman coins in 1869 at Westdown Farm and a villa with a mosaic floor.
Nunney is mentioned as a manor belonging to William de Moyon in the Domesday Book in 1086, but the book does not mention a castle.
The parish was part of the hundred of Frome.
For many years, from the medieval period until the 19th century, Nunney was the site of water-powered mills owned initially by the Hoddinotts and then by James Fussell.
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Places to see in ( Chard - UK )
Places to see in ( Chard - UK )
Chard is a town and a civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It lies on the A30 road near the Devon border, 15 miles south west of Yeovil. Chard is the southernmost and one of the highest towns in Somerset. Administratively Chard forms part of the district of South Somerset.
The name of the town was Cerden in 1065 and Cerdre in the Domesday Book of 1086. After the Norman Conquest, Chard was held by the Bishop of Wells. The town's first charter was from King John in 1234. Most of the town was destroyed by fire in 1577, and it was further damaged during the English Civil War. A 1663 will by Richard Harvey of Exeter established Almshouses known as Harvey's Hospital. In 1685 Chard was one of the towns in which Judge Jeffreys held some of the Bloody Assizes after the failure of the Monmouth Rebellion.
Textile manufacture was important to the town during the Middle Ages. Chard is the birthplace of powered flight as in 1848 John Stringfellow first demonstrated that engine-powered flight was possible. Percy and Ernist Petter, who formed Westland Aircraft Works, witnessed some of Stringfellow's demonstrations in Chard and often asked for help in the formation of Westland's first aircraft development factory on the outskirts of Yeovil. AgustaWestland now holds the Henson and Stringfellow lecture yearly for the RAeS. James Gillingham developed articulated artificial limbs. Chard is a key point on the Taunton Stop Line, a World War II defensive line.
The Chard Canal was a tub boat canal built between 1835 and 1842. Chard Branch Line was created in 1860 to connect the two London and South Western Railway and Bristol and Exeter Railway main lines and ran through Chard until 1965.
Local folklore relates that the town has a very unusual and unique feature: a stream running along either side of Fore Street. One stream eventually flows into the Bristol Channel and the other reaches the English Channel. Chard Reservoir, approximately a mile north east of the town, is a Local Nature Reserve, and Snowdon Hill Quarry a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest. Major employers in the town include Numatic International Limited and the Oscar Mayer food processing plant. There are a range of sporting and cultural facilities, with secondary education being provided at Holyrood Academy; religious sites including the Church of St Mary the Virgin which dates from the late 11th century.
From 1842 Chard was the terminus of the Chard Canal, a tub boat canal that joined the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal at Creech St. Michael. It had four aqueducts, three tunnels and four inclined planes along its 13.5-mile (21.7 km) length.
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Best UK Campsite? - Old Oaks Touring Park
We head to the fantastic Old Oaks Touring Park near Glastonbury, Somerset. We only have one night but we pack loads in, including baking pizza's in a camper van with the help of the amazing Ridgemonkey. Bentley makes some friends too and we show you around this incredible campsite.
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The World's 2 Most Addictive Drugs?
To travel is to learn about other cultures and observe how people live their lives. And when I go abroad, I like to venture deep off the beaten path to find interesting stories to tell.
Nothing piques my interest more than drugs -- where they are found and how they are used around the world. Alcohol, nicotine and marijuana are consumed literally everywhere (even in countries where it's banned). But if you think those drugs are abused, just wait until you learn about KHAT (found in the Horn of Africa/Arabian peninsula) and BETEL NUT (found in Southeast Asia/ Pacific Islands).
I discovered both of these heavily addicting drugs in Somaliland and Papua New Guinea, respectively, earlier this year. This video shares the story of how they are affecting the local population and how they contribute to a massive part of each country's economy.
Have you ever heard of these two drugs before? What are your thoughts on them?
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Pensford in Somerset, England from the air (DJI Phantom 3)
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Between the 14th and 16th centuries Pensford was a cloth centre using local wool. The name Pensford, is believed to come from the old english pens by the ford as in animal pens by a river crossing. Later in the 19th and 20th centuries the industry had turned to coal mining, this came to an end in 1955.
The viaduct featured in the video opened in 1874 and carried the Bristol and North Somerset Railway over the river Chew. It officially closed in 1968 following flood damage.
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The Fairways International promotional video (UK)
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(HD) Chew Valley Lake , North Somerset. Mon 22nd July 2013.
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On the last day of my July weeks holiday we take a drive up to Chew Valley Lake in the beautiful Chew Valley. To the north of the lake in under 5 miles is the City of Bristol via Dundry Hill, and 10 miles to the west is Bristol Airport. The Mendip Hills leading to Cheddar Gorge are to the South.
The lake which provides drinking water for Bristol is the 5th largest man-made lake in the Country. It was opened on the 17th April 1956, a month i know well.... after being constructed for several years by Bristol Waterworks Company. In the making they had to flood the old hamlet of Moreton, which apparently was a thriving community in the Middle Ages. Excavations some time back revealed this and also possibly the remains of the Nunnery Santa Cruz.
Most of the water comes from the nearby Mendip Hills to the south. We stopped for lunch at the Tea rooms at the north of the lake,and a bit later we drive round to the west side to go to Woodford Lodge. At Woodford it is a bit quieter, and where some of the best views of the lake can be had. They have a very nice restaurant which overlooks the lake, where we sampled a Pear and Honey crumble with custard.....highly excellent !! That's the waistline gone again....ha ha. The final 2 clips are taken at the south-western end of the lake and again i have problems with what i can see to film....bright concrete for starters lol.
The lake is used for a variety of leisure pursuits, including fishing, yachting, nature trail, bird watching etc etc. I can thoroughly recommend a visit here if your ever in the area; for us it was a lovely way to finish time-out !!!
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Abbott Lodge Jersey Ice Cream Eden Valley
Abbotts Lodge Jersey Ice Cream
Abbott Lodge, near Penrith, Cumbria is a working dairy farm set in spectacular scenery of the Eden Valley midway between the Pennines and the Northern Lake District. The farm produces over 40 flavours of high quality homemade Jersey ice cream.
The farm was restocked with Jersey cattle in February 2002 following foot and mouth in 2001.