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Mendip

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Mendip is a National Nature Reserve in Somerset of 14 km². The county has nine National Nature Reserves; this is one. It lies inside the Mendip Hills National Landscape.

For arrivals by rail, Weston-super-Mare Station is about 2.2 km to the north-west. Nearby nature reserves include Cheddar Gorge and Brimble Pit and Cross Swallet Basins.

More places to visit near Mendip

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 Cheddar Gorge, a gorge in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, south west England.Iconic

Cheddar Gorge

Gorge near Cheddar

Britain's largest gorge, a 400-foot limestone canyon cut through the Mendips with a cliff-edge road, show caves and clifftop walks.

adjoining

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

adjoining

Photo of Wells Cathedral, a cathedral in Somerset, south west England.Iconic

Wells Cathedral

Cathedral near Wells

England's earliest Gothic cathedral, famous for its carved west front and the great scissor arches crossing the nave.

0.3 km SE

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.

0.6 km E · Somerset

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.

1 km NE