Mendip transmitting station, Cheddar

Name: Mendip transmitting station
Address: Cheddar, United Kingdom

#15 among attractions in Cheddar

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The Mendip transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility on the summit of Pen Hill, part of the Mendip Hills range in Somerset, England, at 305 metres above sea level. The station is in St Cuthbert Out civil parish in Mendip district, approximately 2 miles northeast of the centre of Wells. It has a 281.6 metres tall mast, which was built in 1967 and weighs around 500 tonnes, and is the tallest structure in South West England. The mast broadcasts digital television, FM analogue radio and DAB digital radio, and had broadcast analogue colour television from 1967 until 2010. It has become a Mendip landmark, providing a method of identifying the hills from a distance. ()

Coordinates: 51°14'13"N, 2°37'31"W

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Cheddar United Kingdom

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Mendip transmitting station – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Wells and Mendip Museum, Wells St Andrew, Eastwater Cavern, Chain Gate.

2 miSW
Specialty museum, Museum, Natural history museum
Wells 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.
2 miS
Church
Wells 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.
2 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Eastwater Cavern
50 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.
2 miSW
Church, Vernacular architecture
Chain Gate, Wells
51 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.
1.2 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Hunter's Hole, Mendips
31 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.
1.9 miSW
Architecture, Street
Vicars' Close, Wells
50 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".
1.8 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Stock 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.
1.7 miNW
Natural attraction, Cave
St 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.
~40 ftSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Pen Hill
1 min walk • 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. The name Pen is believed to be Celtic for hill or tor. It gives its name to one of the four periclines which underlay the geology of the hills.
2 miS
Church
The 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.
1.8 miSW
Theater
Cedars 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.