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Friar's Oven

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Friar's Oven is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, covering 0.04 km². The county has 177 Sites of Special Scientific Interest; this is one. For more of the same, Wookey Hole and Priddy Caves are close by. For arrivals by rail, Castle Cary Station is about 10 km to the south-east.

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