Middledown is an area of neutral and limestone grassland high up on the Mendip Hills; why not pack a picnic and come and enjoy the far reaching views?

Cooks Field is a flower rich limestone grassland on steep slopes and traditional hay meadows on the higher and flatter ground. It is an important site for grassland butterflies.

A reserve with a diverse flora and abundance of butterfly species.<br />
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Two SWT reserves make up the Cheddar Complex; Long Wood and Velvet Bottom. The complex offers a chance to explore the desolate beauty of the Mendip Hills. The remote landscape is fractured with…

Lynchcombe is a flower rich grassland in a dramatic setting high up on the Mendip escarpment with panoramic views across the Somerset Levels.

Just a mile south-east of the centre of Wells, this is an ancient semi-natural woodland, made up primarily of ash, hazel and field maple, with planted oak and a fine stand of small-leaved lime.…

A series of traditionally managed fields around the buildings of Chancellor’s Farm and providing an outstanding example of some of the flower rich grassland communities associated with the higher…

An upland area of heathland known as Limestone Heath which is an uncommon habitat on the Mendip Hills and is great for heathland flowers. Another unusual feature for this limestone area is the…

"Gruffy” or “groovy” ground is the Mendip name for land with numerous mineshafts, and other mining hollows, such as those covering most of the reserve. Lead was mined here in the 16th and…

Ubley Warren bears the scars of an industrial past with low gullies cut into the limestone rock called rakes and deep mine shafts featuring in its landscape; this is reflected in the nationally…