King John's Hunting Lodge

A limestone upland riddled with caves and gorges, an easy high point, and old lead-mining country on top

0.2 km NW

Compact medieval town on the edge of the Levels, its square framed by King John's Hunting Lodge, a jettied timber merchant's house.

0.2 km E · Somerset

Mendip village at the mouth of its famous gorge, cheese-making since the twelfth century and gateway to the show caves.

2.9 km E · Somerset

Britain's biggest gorge, a mile of grey limestone cliffs in the Mendips with famous show caves cut into the rock below

3.3 km E

A rocky limestone summit at the western tip of the Mendips, its bare crown giving sweeping views over the Levels to the sea.

4.5 km W

Rocky Mendip valley of tumbled limestone crags whose 'Rock of Ages' cleft is said to have inspired the hymn.

6 km NE