Blacker's Hill promontory fort

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

4.8 km NW

England's longest inland waymarked trail, tracing Charles II's escape route from defeat at Worcester in 1651 to the ship waiting at Shoreham.

7.7 km W · spans 14 counties

Domesday village of honey-coloured hamstone on the Mendip fringe, with a manor, a leafy street called New Street and an Easter Daffodil Day.

8.4 km E · Somerset

15th-century coaching inn in the picture-book village of Mells, an olive gastropub pick.

9.1 km E

Edwardian hillside terraces framing Wells Cathedral and the Vale of Avalon below.

9.3 km W

A moated medieval palace whose swans ring a bell for food, taught since the 1870s.

9.3 km SW