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Cheddar Wood

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Cheddar Wood is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, covering 0.86 km². The county has 177 Sites of Special Scientific Interest; this is one. The surrounding countryside is part of the Mendip Hills National Landscape.

The closest station is Worle, about 9.9 km to the north-west. Other SSSIs nearby include The Perch, Axbridge Hill and Fry's Hill and Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill.

More places to visit near Cheddar Wood

Photo of the Mendip Hills, a National Landscape in Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Mendip Hills

You’re inside itNational Landscape near Cheddar

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

Photo of Axbridge, a village in Somerset, south west England.

Axbridge

Village

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

1.4 km SW · Somerset

Photo of Cheddar, a village in Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Cheddar

Village

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

2.1 km SE · Somerset

Photo of Cheddar Gorge, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Cheddar Gorge

SSSI near Cheddar

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

2.2 km E

Photo of Burrington Combe, a gorge near Cheddar in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Burrington Combe

Gorge near Cheddar

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

4.5 km NE

Photo: Crook Peak, a viewpoint near Axbridge in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Crook Peak

Viewpoint near Axbridge

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

5.7 km W