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Mendip Hills View from the Mendip Hills, Somerset, Eng.

Mendip Hills

hills, England, United Kingdom
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Mendip Hills, range of hills in the geographic county of Somerset, England, extending 23 miles (37 km) northwest from the Frome valley. The Eastern Mendip is comparatively low, but the Western Mendip forms a plateau 6 miles wide and more than 800 feet (244 metres) high. Farther west the Wavering Down and Bleadon Hill continue the trend of the upland toward the Bristol Channel. Swallet holes and drainage (the sudden disappearance of streams and rivers...

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