Hotels near Cheddar Caves & Gorge
Cheddar Gorge, a place of wild and rugged beauty, is a karst limestone and calcareous grassland Nature Reserve and home to many rare plants and animals, including endangered Greater Horseshoe bats. Cheddar Caves, inhabited by our ancestors up to 40,000 years ago, were re-discovered by Messrs Gough & Cox, enterprising Victorian showmen, and are world famous for their spectacular stalactite and stalagmite decorations, whose beautiful colours are mirrored in pools of water.
Easy-to-use audio-guides in English, French and German tell the story of the caves' formation and discovery. These caves also fired the imagination of JRR Tolkien, author of the trilogy 'Lord of the Rings', on his honeymoon visit in 1916. 'The Crystal Quest', our own dark-walk fantasy adventure, creates a similar world of elven magic and bold adventure underground - because everyone knows that "dragons lives in caves....."
The Cheddar Man Museum of Pre-history, explores 40,000 years of British Pre-history, with demonstrations of Stone Age survival skills and beautiful cave art. But can you face the truth about why our Homo sapiens ancestors, throughout the world for most of pre-history, were cannibals?,/p>
From April to September, an open-top double-decker bus takes you on a sight-seeing tour through Cheddar Gorge, beneath rocky pinnacles rising sheer above you, the home of Peregrine falcons. There are 274 steps to reach a Lookout Tower for stunning views of this limestone countryside, then a 3-mile cliff-top walk right around Britain's biggest Gorge, climbing 400 ft above the road, through this internationally important Nature Reserve.
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Location: Cheddar
Distance: 0.88 miles
Rating: 4*
Prices From: £40.00
Location: Axbridge
Distance: 2.09 miles
Rating: 2*
Prices From: £40.00
Location: Shipham
Distance: 2.49 miles
Rating: 3*
Prices From: £76.00
Location: Bristol
Distance: 2.94 miles
Rating: NOT CLASSIfIED
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Location: Winscombe
Distance: 3.89 miles
Rating: 3*
Prices From: £70.00
Location: Bristol
Distance: 3.95 miles
Rating: 3*
Prices From: £59.50
Location: Cheddar
Distance: 4.05 miles
Rating: 4*
Prices From: £60.00
Location: North Somerset
Distance: 4.25 miles
Rating: 4*
Prices From: £59.00
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