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The road through Cheddar Gorge - Photo:
Tim |
For hundreds of years this
small village was the focal point for the
manufacture of Cheddar cheese, a morsel now
produced all over the world. The village
stands at the foot of the stunning Cheddar
Gorge whose high limestone cliffs soar to
nearly 500 feet. The rocks are peppered with
hundreds of caves and two of them, Gough’s and
Cox’s, have remarkable stalagmites and
stalactites. Cheddar Man – the oldest complete
prehistoric human skeleton ever found in
Britain - was discovered in Gough’s Cave in
1903. |
