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lots of disruption of path due to works at the mo. diversion in place

Excellent food and good value prices. Buddah bowls, jacket potatoes, good coffee, interesting fruit infusions.

The road leading out of the small village of Butcombe offers a visually appealing cycling route, framed by Blagdon and the stunning Mendips in the distance.

Blagdon Lake was created by damming the River Yeo in 1898. The project was completed in 1905 and provides drinking water for Bristol and the local area. The lake is also an important wildlife habitat, with lots of different bird and insect species living here.

Blagdon Lake and some of the surrounding wetland and woodland has been designated as a SSSI due to the variety of species which live here. Look out for badgers, fox and Roe deer as well as numerous dragonfly and water birds.

Holt Farm Organic Gardens is a 6.5-acre mix of edible and ornamental garden certified as Organic by the Soil Association. It's owned by Yeo Valley and open to visitors. There is also a café here so it's a great stop on a walk around the lake.

Great Sunday roast at the New Inn in Blagdon.

Ubley Parish sits in the Yeo valley at the west end of the Chew Valley. It is bordered to the north and south with ridges of hills, most significantly the Mendips to the south. It sits within the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and close to Blagdon Lake. Ubley is an attractive village set mostly on the valley floor but rises up on the lower slopes of the Mendip Hills to the south. The surrounding valley landscape is of farmland with small and medium sized fields largely for grazing. Fields are separated by well-kept hedgerows with intermittent mature trees. The whole area is rich in wildlife and is rural and unspoilt in character. There are magnificent views from the slopes of the Mendips across the Parish and as far as South Wales to the west and the hills above Bath to the east. The roads are lined by a mixture of hedgerows and walls, the latter of which are of local stone. The slopes of the Mendip scarp are densely wooded with an area known as Ubley Wood. The centre of the village is at The Cross, outside the 13th century St Bartholomew’s Church. This is a conservation area, with charming houses and gardens and a view up to the Mendip Hills. Ubley has many way-marked paths leading either up to the Mendip Hills or down to the edges of Blagdon and Chew Valley Lakes. From the Mendip Hills above Ubley both lakes can be seen, and on a clear day the view is spread from Cardiff to the hills above Bath.