Mendip Hills AONB
Please find our dedicated community page here for the Mendip Hills AONB.
Nature Reserves
The parish is lucky enough to have outstanding scenery and landscape, and there are designated nature reserves either in, or neighbouring, the parish:-
- Ebbor Gorge & Wood, Wookey Hole (National Trust)
- Kings Castle Wood, between South Horrington and Dulcote (Somerset Wildlife Trust)
- Cooks Field, Wookey Hole (Somerset Wildlife Trust)
- Lynchcombe, Wookey Hole (Somerset Wildlife Trust)
- Wookey Hole Caves
- Vigo Woods, Rookham
A short drive beyond the parish are
- Yarley Fields
- Priddy Ponds
- Shapwick Heath
SSSIs (Sites of Special Scientific Interest)
There are also SSSIs located in or neighbouring the parish boundary, at
Ebbor Gorge, designated in 1952.
Maesbury Railway Cutting, designated in 1995.
Twinhills Woods and Meadows, designated in 1990.
Wookey Hole Caves, designated in 1952.
Wookey Station, designated in 1997.
Ben Knowle, designated in 1984 (Wookey Parish)
Please open the map below to see the location of SSSIs. (From top to bottom, Ebbor Gorge, Wookey Hole Caves and Twinhills Wood & Meadows.)
Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) (PDF, 805 Kb)
SSSIs within the parish (Parish Online)