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The Best Attractions In Winscombe

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Winscombe is a village in North Somerset, England, close to the settlements of Axbridge and Cheddar, on the western edge of the Mendip Hills, 7 miles southeast of Weston-super-Mare and 14 miles southwest of Bristol. The Parish of Winscombe and Sandford, centred on the Parish Church of Church of St James the Great, includes the villages/hamlets of Barton, Hale, Oakridge, Nye, Sidcot and Woodborough.Historically part of Somerset, Winscombe has a few shops and businesses focused in the centre of the village, along Woodborough Road and Sandford Road. There is a doctor's surgery in the village, and two dentists. West of the village is the Max Bog biological...
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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.

( Cheddar - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Cheddar . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Cheddar - UK

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CHEDDAR GORGE WALK - Exploring caves and cliffs by drone

Today, I'm exploring the BIGGEST GORGE IN THE UK! Cheddar Gorge and Caves in Somerset is one of Great Britain's natural wonders and is so HUGE!

Okay, so it's not the Grand Canyon, but walking through the gorge and up the road through the cathedral of rock is amazing, but it's even better with a drone in your backpack as you hike up the gorge and over the cliffs.

This walk only takes an hour from the village of Cheddar, but from the top, you can see amazing views on a clear day of the village and Cheddar Reservoir.

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After Dark Driving on Somerset Country Roads

Our Journey home, night-time driving on country roads in Somerset, starting from where we had a meal at the Sidcot Arms (Brewers Fayre); driving through the village of Winscombe before joining the single track country road (two-way traffic) with no street lights (pitch black) @ 8:50 into the video until to where we join the main roads leading to Bristol.

Earlier in the day we stopped off at the restaurant on our way home as a pleasant end to our daytrip at Wookey Hole Caves.

Part of our journey involved driving on a single track country road running parallel to a river on left for Several Miles, with just a few feet of grass verge separating us from the Water.

The Background track is licence free music ‘Great Divide, Quick Relief’ which is automatically generated by Pinnacle Studio ScoreFitter.

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