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Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData The Somerset Levels are a coastal plain and wetland area of Somerset, England, running south from the Mendips to the Blackdown Hills.. The Somerset Levels have an area of about 160,000 acres (650 km 2) and are bisected by the Polden Hills; the areas to the south are drained by the River Parrett, and the areas to the north by the rivers Axe and Brue.
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 8: The Poldens and the Levels. British History Online. Galton, Erasmus (1845). "An Account of Improvement of a Shaking Bog at Meare in Somersetshire". Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. 6. Royal Agricultural Society; Hardy, Peter (1999). The Geology of Somerset. Ex Libris Press.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 19:35, 14 March 2011: 1,356 × 1,226 (1,007 KB): Nilfanion {{Information |Description=Map of the Somerset Levels, UK (and surrounding area) with the following information shown: *Administrative borders *Coastline, lakes and rivers *Roads and railways *Urban areas Equirectangular map project
Somerset is predominantly a rural and agricultural county. The main upland areas are the Mendip Hills in the east and the Quantock Hills further west, the Blackdown Hills form the county's southern border, and Exmoor is on the western fringes. Between the Mendips and the Quantocks is the large area of flat, low-lying ground known as the ...
A map of the county in 1646, author unknown ... Somerset CC area [95] 187,266 276,684 277,563 280,215 ... Templecombe has Thales Underwater Systems, ...
North Somerset Levels taken from Dolebury Warren. The North Somerset Levels is a coastal plain, an expanse of low-lying flat ground, which occupies an area between Weston-super-Mare and Bristol in North Somerset, England. The River Banwell, River Kenn, River Yeo and Land Yeo are the three principal rivers draining the area.
Chew Valley Lake (grid reference) is a reservoir in Chew Stoke, Chew Valley, Somerset, England.It is the fifth-largest artificial lake in the United Kingdom, with an area of 1,200 acres (4.9 km 2).
Somerset. Somerset is a rural county in the southwest of England, covering 4,171 square kilometres (1,610 sq mi).It is bounded on the north-west by the Bristol Channel, on the north by Bristol and Gloucestershire, on the north-east by Wiltshire, on the south-east by Dorset, and on the south west and west by Devon.