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Highest point in the current county of Somerset and the unitary authority of Bath and NE Somerset. Corner of field on side of Niver Hill on the county boundary. Wavering Down 210 ST406559 Beacon Batch: Mendip Hills: Open summit with trig point. Crook Peak: 191 ST387558 Beacon Batch: Mendip Hills: Prominent hill at the western end of the Mendip ...
Black Down is the highest hill in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, in south-western England. Black Down lies just a few miles eastward of the Bristol Channel at Weston-super-Mare, and provides a view over the Chew Valley. The summit is marked with an Ordnance Survey trig point, the base of which has been rebuilt by the Mendip Hills AONB authority.
Dunkery Beacon at the summit of Dunkery Hill is the highest point on Exmoor and in Somerset, England.It is also the highest point in southern England outside of Dartmoor.. The sandstone hill rises to 519 metres (1,703 ft) and provides views over the surrounding moorland, the Bristol Channel and hills up to 86 miles (138 km) away.
Running from Weston-super-Mare and the Bristol Channel in the west to the Frome valley in the east, the hills overlook the Somerset Levels to the south and the Chew Valley and other tributaries of the Avon to the north. [1] The highest point, at 325 metres (1,066 ft) above sea level, is Beacon Batch which is the summit area atop Black Down.
Lewesdon Hill: 25 Leicestershire: 278 170 Bardon Hill: 26 West Midlands: 271 87 Turners Hill: 27 Buckinghamshire: 267 180 Haddington Hill: 28= Oxfordshire: 261 79 Whitehorse Hill: 28= Warwickshire: 261 111 Ebrington Hill: 30 Tyne and Wear: 259 13 Currock Hill: 31 Kent: 251 15 Betsom's Hill: 32 East Sussex: 248 213
The north of Somerset is dominated by the tableland of the Mendip Hills, an area of outstanding natural beauty, stretching from Frome in the east to Crook Peak in the west, with outliers of Bleadon Hill and Brean Down as well as Steep Holm in the Bristol Channel. The highest point is Black Down at 324 metres (1,063 ft). [35]
Straddling the border of Somerset and Devon, the Blackdown Hills AONB covers an area of 370 square kilometres (143 sq mi). [7] The hills reach their highest point of 315 metres (1,033 ft) above sea level at Staple Hill in Somerset. The hills in the southern part of the area, near Honiton in Devon, are more gentle.
Their highest point is Staple Hill (315 metres (1,033 ft)). [5] Exmoor is a large upland area straddling Somerset and North Devon, close to the Bristol Channel. It is composed from the Exmoor Group of sedimentary rocks and is overlain by moorland with wet, acid soil. [ 6 ]