Black Down is the highest area of the Mendip Hills and affords wonderful views across the Bristol Channel into Wales, over Weston-super-Mare, the Chew Valley, the Quantocks and beyond. There are many Bronze Age burial sites dotted around. You might also see the wild ponies strutting their stuff.

Mendip Hills National Landscape

24 de março de 2021

This special site is designated as a Site of Special Scientific interest for its valuable wildlife habitats and is a nationally important site for its archaeology from the late Stone Age and Bronze Age through to the Second World War. Black Down provides the largest area of open access on the Mendip
Hills at over 400 ha.

Black Down, like most heathlands, is formed through a combination of factors– soil type, rainfall and human activity. The underlying Old Red Sandstone rock together with high rainfall created a waterlogged and acidic soil. The removal of tree cover by our Bronze Age ancestors 2,000 years ago helped to make sure that the soil stayed damp and acid. Only certain plants can survive in this type of ground. The key species include heather or ling, bell heather, bilberry, purple moor grass and European gorse, along with mosses and lichens.
Now the bracken is managed by harvesting and grazing by cattle and wild ponies to allow the heathers and grasses to flourish again. Black Down supports a wide variety of birds, mammals, reptiles and invertebrates.

Ben Thompson 🏔

17 de maio de 2020

Views out to Bristol Channel, over to Wales and of course of all the wild horses.

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Elevação 290 m

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segunda-feira 20 outubro

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Velocidade máxima do vento: 22,0 km/h

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Localização:Priddy, Mendip, Somerset, Sudoeste da Inglaterra, Inglaterra, Reino Unido

Cume de Black Down e Pôneis Selvagens

1. Loop de Beacon Batch & Dolebury Warren a partir de Burrington Combe — Mendip Hills

2. Loop de Dolebury Warren & Beacon Batch a partir de Blagdon — Mendip Hills

3. The Butcombe Trail & Beacon Batch loop from Cheddar — Mendip Hills

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