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Forming a natural barrier to the north are the Mendip Hills, a massive limestone range with its own, special character.
Here on the uplands dry stone walls replace the ryhnes of the Levels, sheep are grazed for their wool and their meat, and tiny settlements nestle in sharply-incised valleys.
Millions of years of water erosion have created some of Britain's finest cave systems and gorges, of which Cheddar is the most spectacular, while around the foot of the hills lie such gems as Wells, Britain's smallest cathedral city and nearby Glastonbury, world famous now because of its annual music festival, but also the site of a great ruined medieval abbey and the unmistakable Tor. |
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