Hunter's Hole, Mendips

#11 among attractions in Mendips

Nature, Natural attraction, Top attraction, Cave

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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. It is accessed via a permanent ladder, about 100m behind the pub in a small dip between some trees. ()

Discovered: 1954Coordinates: 51°14'52"N, 2°38'51"W

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Bristol Road, PriddyMendips United Kingdom

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Hunter's Hole – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Swildon's Hole, Eastwater Cavern, Stock Hill, St Cuthbert's Swallet.

1.4 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Swildon's Hole
35 min walk • Swildon's Hole is an extensive cave in Priddy, Somerset. At 9,144 metres in length, it is the longest cave on the Mendip Hills. It has been found to be connected to Priddy Green Sink and forms part of the Priddy Caves Site of Special Scientific Interest. The upper series of the cave compresses many features into a relatively short space.
0.7 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Eastwater Cavern
20 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.
0.8 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Stock Hill
21 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.
0.5 miNW
Natural attraction, Cave
St Cuthbert's Swallet, Priddy Mineries
13 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.
1.2 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Pen Hill
32 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.
1.1 miNW
Archaeological site
Priddy Nine Barrows
29 min walk • Priddy Nine Barrows Cemetery and Ashen Hill Barrow Cemetery are a collection of round barrows, dating from the Bronze Age, near Priddy in the English county of Somerset. They are designated as ancient monuments.
0.6 miNW
Natural attraction, Hill
Priddy Pools, Priddy Mineries
17 min walk • Priddy Pools is a 52.7-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Priddy in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, notified in 1972. The pools provided the water supply for the Priddy Mineries which is now a Nature Reserve.
1.3 miNE
Cave
Attborough Swallet, Mendips
35 min walk • Attborough Swallet is a cave in Chewton Mendip in Somerset, England. It is unusual for a cave on the Mendip Hills in that it is not in limestone but instead in Dolomitic Conglomerate and Marl.
1.5 miNW
Church
Church of St Lawrence, Cheddar
38 min walk • The Anglican Church of St Lawrence at Priddy, Somerset, England, dates from the 13th century, with some rebuilding in the 15th century and was restored in 1881–88; it is a Grade I listed building.
1.2 miSE
Tower
Mendip transmitting station, Cheddar
31 min walk • 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.
0.6 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Drove Cottage Henge, Cheddar
17 min walk • Drove Cottage Henge is a scheduled monument in the Priddy parish of Somerset, England. It is located 370 metres north of Drove Cottage. The site is a ceremonial Neolithic location. Since this henge is one of only around 80 henges throughout England, it is considered to be nationally important.

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Which popular attractions are close to Hunter's Hole?

Nearby attractions include St Cuthbert's Swallet, Priddy Mineries (13 min walk), Priddy Caves, Cheddar (17 min walk), Drove Cottage Henge, Cheddar (17 min walk), Priddy Pools, Priddy Mineries (17 min walk).