Pen Hill
#2854 among destinations in the United Kingdom
Facts and practical information
Pen Hill forms part of the Mendip Hills plateau in Somerset, England. The hill is located in St Cuthbert Out civil parish in Mendip district. ()
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Pen Hill – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Wells and Mendip Museum, Wells St Andrew, Eastwater Cavern, Chain Gate.
Specialty museum, Museum, Natural history museumWells and Mendip Museum, Wells
51 min walk • The Wells and Mendip Museum is a museum in the city of Wells. It is a registered charity and an accredited member of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. The exhibits include items of local history and archaeological finds.
ChurchWells St Andrew, Wells
51 min walk • Wells St Andrew, or St Andrew Liberty, or derivations thereof, was a liberty, ecclesiastical parish, and later a civil parish, containing Wells Cathedral and surrounding land, in Somerset, England.
Nature, Natural attraction, CaveEastwater Cavern
51 min walk • Eastwater Cavern is a cave near Priddy in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. It is also known as Eastwater Swallet. It was first excavated in April 1902 by a team led by Herbert E. Balch composed of paid labourers and volunteers from the Wells Natural History Society.
Church, Vernacular architectureChain Gate, Wells
50 min walk • The Chain Gate in Wells, Somerset, England, is an entrance gateway adjacent to the north side of Wells Cathedral, controlling access from St Andrew Street to the Cathedral Green within the Liberty of St Andrew. It is a Grade I listed building. It was built around 1460 to link the cathedral to Vicars' Close.
Nature, Natural attraction, CaveHunter's Hole, Mendips
32 min walk • Hunter's Hole is a cave in the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. It is behind a pub, known as the Hunters Lodge Inn just outside Priddy where visitors can park.
Architecture, StreetVicars' Close, Wells
49 min walk • Vicars' Close, in Wells, Somerset, England, is claimed to be the oldest purely residential street with original buildings surviving intact in Europe.John Julius Norwich called it "that rarest of survivals, a planned street of the mid-14th century".
Nature, Natural attraction, HillStock Hill
47 min walk • Stock Hill is a Forestry Commission plantation on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. It lies to the south of the B3135 which runs from Cheddar Gorge to Green Ore and is the largest woodland on the Mendip plateau. A number of wide rides run through the forest.
Natural attraction, CaveSt Cuthbert's Swallet, Priddy Mineries
44 min walk • St Cuthbert's Swallet is the second longest, and most complex, cave on the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. It forms a major part of the Priddy Caves system and water entering this swallet re-emerges at Wookey Hole.
Forts and castlesKing's Castle
51 min walk • King's Castle is an Iron Age enclosed hilltop settlement at the south-western edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset, England.
ChurchThe Old Deanery, Wells
51 min walk • The Old Deanery of Wells Cathedral in Wells, Somerset, England, dates from the 12th century. Along with the gatehouse and boundary walls has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
TheaterCedars Hall, Wells
47 min walk • Cedars Hall is Wells Cathedral School's performing arts venue located in Wells, Somerset, England. Opened in autumn 2016, it provides the capacity for audiences of 350 in its main recital hall named Eavis Hall after Old Wellensian Michael Eavis, CBE, founder of the Glastonbury Festival.
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