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The Best Attractions In Dundry

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Church of St Michael Tower

Wookey Hole Caves

Hawk Conservancy Trust

Blenheim Palace

Stonehenge

Cheddar Gorge

Avebury Stone Circle

Dundry is a village and civil parish, situated on Dundry Hill in the northern part of the Mendip Hills, between Bristol and the Chew Valley Lake, in the English county of Somerset. The parish includes the hamlets of Maiden Head and East Dundry. The parish had a 2011 population of 829.The village lies on the route of the Monarch's Way long-distance footpath.
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The Best Attractions In Dundry

1. Church of St Michael Tower Dundry
The Church of St Andrew in Chew Magna, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century with a large 15th-century pinnacled sandstone tower, a Norman font and a rood screen that is the full width of the church. It is a Grade I listed building.
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2. Stonehenge Amesbury
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, 2 miles west of Amesbury. It consists of a ring of standing stones, with each standing stone around 13 feet high, 7 feet wide and weighing around 25 tons. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.Archaeologists believe it was constructed from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. Radiocarbon dating suggests that the first bluestones were raised between 2400 and 2200 BC, although they may have been at the site as early as 3000 BC.One of the most famous landmarks in the United Kingdom, Stoneheng...
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3. Hawk Conservancy Trust Weyhill
The Hawk Conservancy Trust is a bird park and conservation charity that cares for and displays birds of prey. It is located in Weyhill, Hampshire, England, near to the A303 road and the town of Andover. Founded as a zoo by local farmer Reg Smith and his wife Hilary, the park was incorporated as the Hawk Conservancy Trust in 2002. It is also the site of the National Bird of Prey Hospital, a veterinary hospital that takes in injured birds of prey.
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4. Wookey Hole Caves Wookey Hole
Wookey Hole Caves are a series of limestone caverns, a show cave and tourist attraction in the village of Wookey Hole on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset, England. The River Axe flows through the cave. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest for both biological and geological reasons. Wookey Hole cave is a solutional cave, one that is formed by a process of weathering in which the natural acid in groundwater dissolves the rocks. Some water originates as rain that flows into streams on impervious rocks on the plateau before sinking at the limestone boundary into cave systems such as Swildon's Hole, Eastwater Cavern and St Cuthbert's Swallet; the rest is rain that percolates directly through the limestone. The temperature in the caves is a constant 11 °C . Th...
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5. Avebury Stone Circle Avebury
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in southwest England. One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary pagans. Constructed over several hundred years in the Third Millennium BC, during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, the monument comprises a large henge with a large outer stone circle and two separate smaller stone circles situated inside the centre of the monument. Its original purpose is unknown, although archaeologists believe that it was most likely used for some form of ritual or ceremony. The Avebury monument is a part of a larger prehistoric landscape con...
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6. Blenheim Palace Woodstock
Blenheim & Woodstock was a railway station constructed in the neoclassical style which served the town of Woodstock and Blenheim Palace in the English county of Oxfordshire. The station, as well as the line, was constructed by the Duke of Marlborough and was privately run until 1897 when it became part of the Great Western Railway. The number of trains serving the station was cut in the late 1930s, and again in 1952 down to only six trains a day. The last train ran on 27 February 1954 adorned with a wreath. The station building was initially converted into a garage and petrol station. Then the forecourt of the site was no longer used as a petrol station, but for used car sales only with a building company using some of the land behind the station. There were proposals for demolishing the b...
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7. Cheddar Gorge Cheddar
Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Cheddar, Somerset, England. The gorge is the site of the Cheddar show caves, where Britain's oldest complete human skeleton, Cheddar Man, estimated to be over 9,000 years old, was found in 1903. Older remains from the Upper Late Palaeolithic era have been found. The caves, produced by the activity of an underground river, contain stalactites and stalagmites. The gorge is part of a Site of Special Scientific Interest called Cheddar Complex.Cheddar Gorge, including the caves and other attractions, has become a tourist destination. In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, following its appearance on the 2005 television programme Seven Natural Wonders, Cheddar Gorge was named as the second greatest natural wonder in Brit...
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(HD) Chew Valley Lake , North Somerset. Mon 22nd July 2013.

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On the last day of my July weeks holiday we take a drive up to Chew Valley Lake in the beautiful Chew Valley. To the north of the lake in under 5 miles is the City of Bristol via Dundry Hill, and 10 miles to the west is Bristol Airport. The Mendip Hills leading to Cheddar Gorge are to the South.
The lake which provides drinking water for Bristol is the 5th largest man-made lake in the Country. It was opened on the 17th April 1956, a month i know well.... after being constructed for several years by Bristol Waterworks Company. In the making they had to flood the old hamlet of Moreton, which apparently was a thriving community in the Middle Ages. Excavations some time back revealed this and also possibly the remains of the Nunnery Santa Cruz.
Most of the water comes from the nearby Mendip Hills to the south. We stopped for lunch at the Tea rooms at the north of the lake,and a bit later we drive round to the west side to go to Woodford Lodge. At Woodford it is a bit quieter, and where some of the best views of the lake can be had. They have a very nice restaurant which overlooks the lake, where we sampled a Pear and Honey crumble with custard.....highly excellent !! That's the waistline gone again....ha ha. The final 2 clips are taken at the south-western end of the lake and again i have problems with what i can see to film....bright concrete for starters lol.
The lake is used for a variety of leisure pursuits, including fishing, yachting, nature trail, bird watching etc etc. I can thoroughly recommend a visit here if your ever in the area; for us it was a lovely way to finish time-out !!!

Filmed on a Panasonic HC X800.

Nepal,The Land Beyond Imaginations - Max Holidays

Home to some of the best trekking grounds of the world landlocked from one side by the high Himalayan Mountains and the jungles of the Indian plains from the other side makes Nepal a mystic land of snow clad peaks, sherpas, yaks and monasteries. The dire appetite for trekking gets fully quenched in Nepal where you can trek for weeks across mesmerising scenic Himalayan Mountains matched with world class comfort and services always by you at base camps is an absolute abode for adventure seekers.

Along with trekking what make your trip to Nepal more exciting is rafting down in some of the swiftest rivers and bungee jumping. Rest you get an opportunity for canyoning, kayaking, climbing, paragliding and mountain biking in picturesque landscapes of Nepal. Another added charm to Nepal is pilgrimage trips of centuries old Hindu temples and monasteries scattered all across the Nepal. The country also has a good number of national parks for nature lovers to see and spend time amidst the some rare species of birds and animals making the Nepal a real treasure trove for adventure seekers and nature lovers.

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Please watch: Hornbill Festival | Nagaland | Max holidays

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protestant cathedral... Sheffield, England (Western Europe)

Weston-Super-Mare to Southampton Central- 28/10/11.

Onboard an unuasual train consisting of 2 and a half FGW class 150's from Weston and (for some reason) two FGW class 158 DMU's both numbered no. 158952.

If anyone knows the numbers of any of the locos seen at 08:05, please tell, thanks.

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