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Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Cheddar, Somerset, England. The gorge is the site of the Cheddar show caves, where Britain's oldest complete human skeleton , Cheddar Man , estimated to be 9,000 years old, was found in 1903. [ 1 ]
Cheddar Gorge is Britain’s largest gorge and probably the country’s best known limestone feature. It is a spectacular fluvial feature with a geomorphic history extending back 2 million years and encompassing the major environmental changes of the Pleistocene period. Cheddar Caves contain both active and fossil systems.
Site name Reason for designation Area Grid reference [B] Year in which notified Map [C] Biological interest Geological interest Hectares Acres Aller and Beer Woods Y 56.9 140.6 ST404305 1952 Map Aller Hill Y 18.4 45.4 ST408291 1988 Map Asham Wood Y 141.6 347.5 ST705460 1963 Map Axbridge Hill and Fry's Hill Y 67.1 160.1 ST433555 1990 Map Babcary Meadows Y 13.6 31.6 ST567293 1988 Map River Barle ...
It is open to the public as a show cave. The cave is named after mill owner George Cox who discovered it in 1837, while quarrying limestone for a new building. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Cox immediately opened it as a show cave the following year and ran it as a private enterprise until the landowner, Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath , took it over at the ...
Ebbor Gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills, close to Wells. It was designated as a 63.5-hectare (157-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1952. A 40-hectare (99-acre) area of the gorge is owned by the National Trust, and managed by Natural England as a national nature reserve.
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Gough's Cave (/ ɡ ɒ f / GOF) is located in Cheddar Gorge on the Mendip Hills, in Cheddar, Somerset, England. The cave is 115 m (377 ft) deep and is 3.405 km (2.12 mi) long, [2] and contains a variety of large chambers and rock formations. It contains the Cheddar Yeo, the largest underground river system in Britain. [3]
Reservoir Hole is a cave in Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, southwest England. It contains what is believed to be the largest chamber yet found under the Mendip Hills.. The cave was first dug out in 1951 by members of Wessex Cave Club, and further progress was made in 1965 when "Moonmilk Chamber" was reached with the use of blasting.