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	The Mendip Hills, Somerset - tourism information
		The Mendip Hills are one of South West England's undiscovered gems.
		The limestone that underpins the steep ridge is a beehive of caves.
		Also in the Mendip Hills themselves is Ebbor Gorge Nature Reserve, owned by the National Trust.
	www.britainexpress.com /Where_to_go_in_Britain/Destination_Library/mendip-hills.htm (873 words)

	Mendip Hills Information
		The Mendip Hills are a range of limestone hills (karst) situated to the south of Bristol and Bath in north Somerset, England.
		The hills are bounded by the Somerset Levels in the south and west, and the River Avon and Chew Valley Lake in the north.
		The hills give their name to the roughly analogous local government district of Mendip, but some of the northern slopes are located in the bordering Unitary Authorities of North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset, part of the former County of Avon which was dissolved in 1996.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Mendip_Hills (1672 words)

	Mendip Countryside
		To the north and west of the District are the Mendip Hills themselves.
		But, because the the hills rise steeply from sea level in the south and west and overlook the chalk plains of Wiltshire to the east, their summits offer spectacular, panoramic views towards Exmoor, the South Wales Coast and Salisbury Plain.
		In distinctive contrast to the Mendips are the broad, flat landscapes of the Somerset Levels and Moors, mainly to the south and west of Wells and Glastonbury.
	www.mendip.gov.uk /ArticleL.asp?id=SXE246-A7800086 (434 words)

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		The Mendip Hills is an upland area of Southwest Britain, 10 miles south of Bristol.
		The Mendip Hills is an upstanding area of North Somerset, the hills to the east of Shepton Mallet area extensively mined for Limestone and Basalt.
		The Mendip hills rising to 1000 feet near the village of Priddy (2 miles north from Wells) are dominated by old Red sandstone lied down 350 millions years ago on the floor of a large delta system similar to the Nile of Africa today.
	www.red-onions2.co.uk /mendip_weather/Templates/location2.html (824 words)

	MENDIP HILLS - Online Information article about MENDIP HILLS
		MENDIP HILLS, a range in the See also:
		west of this, and to the area thus defined the name of the Mendips is sometimes restricted.
		summit of the hills is a gently swelling See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MEC_MIC/MENDIP_HILLS.html (571 words)

	Mendip Hills — Infoplease.com
		Mendip Hills, range of hills, c.25 mi (40 km) long, across N Somerset, SW England, extending SE from the vicinity of Hutton to the Frome valley.
		In the hills are ruins of Roman lead mines, an amphitheater, and a Roman road.
		Mendip Hills: areas of outstanding natural beauty: an area that has been heavily influenced by its lead-mining heritage, the 198-square-kilometre......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0832663.html (261 words)

	Visiting Mendip
		The Mendip District of Somerset is a picturesque area in the South West of England.
		Glastonbury is well known for its connections with the history of Christianity, the majestic ruins of its Abbey and its association with the legend of King Arthur.
		Shepton Mallet is an historic town set in the Mendip foothills, and at the geographical heart of the Mendip District.
	www.mendip.gov.uk /visiting (357 words)

	Definition of Mendip Hills
		The hills give their name to the roughly analagous local government district of Mendip, but some of the northern slopes are located in the bordering Unitary Authorities of North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset, part of the former County of Avon which was disolved in 1996.
		The hills are home to a number of limestone features, including caves (Wookey Hole), limestone pavements, and a number of gorges, most famously Cheddar Gorge.
		The Mendip Hills is home to the Mendip TV Mast installed in the 1960's, the tallest television mast in the region situated on Pen Hill.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Mendip_Hills (630 words)

	Mining in the Mendips
		The mines on Mendip are notable in that they were often extensions of existing caving systems or simply intersected natural passageways as they were worked.
		J.Rutter, Deliniations of the North Western Division of the County of Somerset and its Antideluvian Bone Caverns (1829) pp.
		Barrington, Nicholas ; The Caves of Mendip, 1964, 91pp.
	www.mike.munro.cwc.net /mining/mendips/intro.htm (728 words)

	The History of East Harptree, Bath and North East Somerset - The Surrounding Area
		The Mendips are the hills that many of us drive over, round, past on the M5, but rarely stop and explore on foot.
		Mendip has been a popular source of minerals since the Romans made their contribution by building the few straight country roads to aid communication.
		Coal had been mined extensively on Mendip even by the end of the seventeenth century, and was a flourishing industry mainly in the Radstock area.
	www.kebar.com /eastharptree/mendip.php (740 words)

	Destination Guide for The Mendip Hills : Enjoy England
		Situated only 20 miles or so from the famous city of Bath, the Mendip Hills area is steeped in history and legend associated with Roman and Iron Age remains, and features some of Somerset’s most attractive landscapes.
		This apparently modest range of limestone hills stretches about 50 miles from the coast at Weston-super-Mare almost to Frome in the east (The Mendip Way long-distance footpath covers this route, and is an ideal focus for a short break holiday).
		Underground, the Mendips are honeycombed with caverns carved out of the limestone rock by the erosive power of water over millions of years.
	www.enjoyengland.com /destinations/find/south-west/somerset/the-mendip-hills.aspx (237 words)

	Famous mineral localities: The Higher Pitts mine, Mendip Hills, Somerset, England Mineralogical Record - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Mendip Hills ("the Mendips") consist of a number of domes disposed along a sickle-shaped structural axis stretching some 50 km from Frome in the east to the Bristol Channel in the west.
		The cores of the domes consist of sandstones and shales of Devonian age, overlain by shales and limestones of Carboniferous age.
		At the eastern end of the Mendips volcanic rocks of Silurian age are also present in the core of the Beacon Hill dome.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3672/is_199607/ai_n8734978/pg_4 (652 words)

	Somerset By The Sea - Cheddar and the Mendip Hills
		Reaching 500 feet in places the sides of the ravine boast the highest inland cliffs in the country and can be viewed both from the public road running through the base of the Gorge or from footpaths along the cliff tops.
		The Mendip Hills are a great centre for walking, riding, adventure activities and outdoor pursuits, particularly caving and climbing.
		Axbridge is a small market town at the foot of the Mendip Hills, near to Cheddar, with a character all of its own.
	www.somersetbythesea.co.uk /content/view/19/40 (295 words)

	Bath Itinararies- Sommerset - hills, lakes and Gorges
		The Mendip Hills lying south of Bath, like the rest of Somerset, is intensely rural in character.
		At the southern fringe of the Mendips is the City of Wells and the town of Glastonbury, steeped in legend.
		Cheddar Gorge is an awesome gash in the Mendip Hills, like a mini Grand Canyon with cliffs towering nearly 500 ft. There is a natural reserve at the head of the Gorge with many species of wild flowers, including the Cheddar Pink, found nowhere else in the world.
	www.bath-bristol.co.uk /Web/51bath.htm (2084 words)

	Mendip Way Walking Holiday
		The Mendips is a ridge of low, flat-topped limestone hills stretching eastwards from the Bristol Channel, that rise abruptly from the flat expanses of the Somerset Levels.
		The landscape, which has changed little in centuries, is an enchanting mix of broad-backed hills of open grassland with far-reaching views, pastures enclosed by drystone walls, dew ponds, ancient woodland, rocky outcrops, combes, caves, sink holes and spectacular deep gorges.
		The Mendip Way traverses the entire length of the Mendip Hills from the old Roman port of Uphill near Weston-super-Mare to the historic market town of Frome.
	www.contours.co.uk /self-guided/mendip-way.htm (303 words)

	Mendip Hills - Holiday Cottages Somerset
		The range of hills known as the Mendip Hills have been officially classed as an area of outstanding beauty.
		The town of Glastonbury is dominated by the enigmatic Glastonbury Tor (an old West Country word for hill), topped with a 14th century tower which draws the eye from anywhere on the surrounding Somerset Levels.
		During the Middle Ages Glastonbury was one of the premier pilgrimage destinations in Britain, due to the ancient legends associating it with Jesus, the Holy Grail, and King Arthur.
	www.holidaycottages4u.com /MendipHills.html (574 words)

	Mendip Potato Stone - unique mineral to Somerset (Site not responding. Last check: )
		ut the stones that occur in the Mendip hills are far from dull or boring.
		They are another of the wonderful gems that are present in and on the ground around the Mendip hills in Somerset.
		They are usually referred to in geological circles as Geodes (from Greek, meaning “earthy”) or from the Chambers Encyclopaedia of 1890, “Geodes are rounded or hollow concretions having the cavity frequently lined with crystals”.
	www.thecrystalman.co.uk /mendippotatostone.html (291 words)

	Sacred sites around Glastonbury \| Mendips
		Archaeologists define the banks atop the summit of the Down as a hillfort, but I believe it was more of a sacred enclosure marking a series of levels moving up to the summit.
		A 'Romano-British' temple was built on the eastern knoll of the Down around 340 CE, but it seems to have been used only for a generation or two.
		The Down is formed of Carboniferous Limestone, same as the Mendips – and its next outcrop westward is the Gwyr (Gower) peninsula just past Swansea in South Wales.
	www.isleofavalon.co.uk /sacredsites/mendips.html (521 words)

	AONB - Mendip Hills page 1
		The Mendips' most dramatic landscape is in the centre of the AONB, site of the famous Cheddar Gorge and Wookey Hole Caves.
		The Mendips rise to a high, bare plateau around Priddy and Charterhouse, criss-crossed by drystone walls and rich in archaeological remains.
		The Mendip plateau is particularly rich in ancient Bronze, Iron Age, Roman and medieval field monuments.
	www.countryside.gov.uk /LAR/Landscape/DL/aonbs/mendip.asp (315 words)

	Country cottages and self-catering holidays in Mendips Somerset
		The following cottages are in the Mendips or Mendip Hills in Somerset.
		The Mendip Hills are hollow limestone hills carved by streams that have eroded a wonderful network of caves.
		It dates back over 500 years and is set in a quiet, peaceful hamlet with a back-cloth of the Mendip Hills and views across the Loxton Valley.
	www.countrycottagesonline.com /Country-cottages-Mendips.htm (587 words)

	Hire
		The county has five ranges of hills:-the Blackdowns, Mendips, Quantocks, Brendons and Poldens - all with their own special character offering walking, riding and cycling for all users.
		The Levels and Moors are the flatlands of Somerset and are ideal for cycling offering miles of hill free, low lying meadows.
		Nestling in the Mendip Hills is Wells, England's smallest city with it's beautiful Cathedral.
	www.bikecity.biz /html/hire.html (235 words)

	News Archive - April 2007
		Mendip residents are being urged to use their votes in the local elections on Thursday May 3.
		Mendip District Council today launched the annual Mendip in Bloom competition with a plea to towns across the district to enter a national contest.
		Printing problems have meant that the cards have been delayed, and has prompted Mendip District Council to report the printing firm it is using to the government, through the National Association of the Electoral Administrators (AEA).
	www.mendip.gov.uk /NewsArchive.asp (359 words)

	Mendip Shooting Ground - Clay Pigeon Shooting and Target Shooting
		This typical English village pub is set in the corner of the village of Chewton Mendip in the lovely countryside of the Mendip Hills.
		Crossways is a traditional Somerset Inn at the foot of the Mendip Hills, with spectacular views over the surrounding Somerset countryside towards the renowned Glastonbury Tor.
		The original Inn, which can trace its history back to 1704, has in recent times been generously and sympathetically extended to create a building in which the past is perfectly at ease with the present - an admirable combination of popular function venue, pub, restaurant and country hotel.
	www.mendipclays.co.uk /hotels.html (721 words)

	Somerset By The Sea - Cheddar and the Mendip Hills
		Reaching 500 feet in places the sides of the ravine boast the highest inland cliffs in the country and can be viewed both from the public road running through the base of the Gorge or from footpaths along the cliff tops.
		The Mendip Hills are a great centre for walking, riding, adventure activities and outdoor pursuits, particularly caving and climbing.
		Axbridge is a small market town at the foot of the Mendip Hills, near to Cheddar, with a character all of its own.
	www.somersetbythesea.com /content/view/19/40 (295 words)

	Mendip Hills. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		range of hills, c.25 mi (40 km) long, across N Somerset, SW England, extending SE from the vicinity of Hutton to the Frome valley.
		Primarily limestone, the hills have numerous caves (Wookey Hole, Cheddar Caves), some of which show signs of prehistoric occupation.
		In the hills are ruins of Roman lead mines, an amphitheater, and a Roman road.
	www.bartleby.com /65/me/MendipHi.html (112 words)

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