Drove Cottage Henge, Cheddar

#19 among attractions in Cheddar

Nature, Natural attraction, Hill

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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. ()

Coordinates: 51°14'45"N, 2°37'59"W

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Cheddar United Kingdom

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Drove Cottage Henge – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Hunter's Hole, Stock Hill, St Cuthbert's Swallet, Pen Hill.

0.6 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Hunter's Hole, Mendips
17 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.
1.1 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Stock Hill
29 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.
1.1 miW
Natural attraction, Cave
St Cuthbert's Swallet, Priddy Mineries
28 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.
0.7 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Pen Hill
18 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
Natural attraction, Hill
Priddy Pools, Priddy Mineries
30 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.
1.2 miN
Cave
Attborough Swallet, Mendips
32 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.
0.7 miSE
Tower
Mendip transmitting station, Cheddar
18 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.
1.3 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Priddy Caves, Cheddar
32 min walk • Priddy Caves is an Area: 67.6 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Priddy in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, notified in 1965. The entrance to St Cuthbert's Swallet is incorporated in the adjacent Priddy Pools SSSI.

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Which popular attractions are close to Drove Cottage Henge?

Nearby attractions include Hunter's Hole, Mendips (17 min walk), Mendip transmitting station, Cheddar (18 min walk).