Pierre's Pot, Mendips

Name: Pierre's Pot
Address: Mendips, United Kingdom

#19 among attractions in Mendips

Nature, Natural attraction, Cave

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Pierre's Pot is a karst cave in Burrington Combe on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. ()

Length: 3232 ftDepth: 154 ftCoordinates: 51°19'19"N, 2°45'10"W

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Mendips United Kingdom

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Pierre's Pot – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Bos Swallet, East Twin Swallet, Bath Swallet, Aveline's Hole.

~1780 ftW
Cave
Bos Swallet, Mendips
9 min walk • Bos Swallet is a karst cave in Burrington Combe on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. It is noted for being rather steep, with a length of 78 metres and a depth of 42 metres.
~1370 ftSE
Cave
East Twin Swallet, Mendips
7 min walk • East Twin Swallet also known as Upper Twin Swallet is a karst cave in Burrington Combe on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. The cave is not very stable. The floor is strewn with boulders under which the stream normally flows.
~1270 ftW
Cave
Bath Swallet, Mendips
7 min walk • Bath Swallet is a karst cave in Burrington Combe on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. On Wednesday 19th September 2007 members of the Wessex Cave Club and Cheddar Caving Club succeeded in connecting Bath Swallet and Rod's Pot.
~990 ftN
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Aveline's Hole, Mendips
5 min walk • Aveline's Hole is a cave at Burrington Combe in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. The earliest scientifically dated cemetery in Britain, 10,200 and 10,400 years old, was found at Aveline's Hole, constituting the largest assemblage of Mesolithic human remains found in Britain.
~480 ftSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Goatchurch Cavern, Mendips
3 min walk • Goatchurch Cavern is a cave on the edge of Burrington Combe in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
0.9 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Black Down, Mendips
22 min walk • Black Down is the highest hill in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, in south-western England. Black Down lies just a few miles eastward of the Bristol Channel at Weston-super-Mare, and provides a view over the Chew Valley.
~590 ftE
Geologic formation, Park, Archaeological site
Burrington Combe, Cheddar
3 min walk • Burrington Combe is a Carboniferous Limestone gorge near the village of Burrington, on the north side of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in North Somerset, England.
~1610 ftW
Cave
Drunkard's Hole, Mendips
8 min walk • Drunkard's Hole is a karst cave in Burrington Combe on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England.
~1410 ftW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Rod's Pot, Mendips
7 min walk • Rod's Pot is a limestone cave above Burrington Combe in the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. The cave was first excavated in 1944 by the University of Bristol Spelæological Society.
0.5 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Read's Cavern, Mendips
13 min walk • Read's Cavern is a cave at Burrington Combe, Somerset, England, in which traces of Iron Age occupation have been found. It lies under Dolbury Hill. Its large main chamber has a boulder ruckle floor and is parallel to a cliff face.
~390 ftSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Sidcot Swallet, Mendips
2 min walk • Sidcot Swallet is a cave near Burrington Combe, in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. It was named after the Sidcot School Speleological Society who explored it in 1925.

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Which popular attractions are close to Pierre's Pot?

Nearby attractions include Sidcot Swallet, Mendips (2 min walk), Goatchurch Cavern, Mendips (3 min walk), Burrington Combe, Cheddar (3 min walk), Aveline's Hole, Mendips (5 min walk).