Beautiful Priddy in the Mendip Hills

Beautiful Priddy in the Mendip Hills

Beautiful Priddy in the Mendip Hills

Priddy is a village in the Mendip Hills Somerset, close to East Harptree and 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Wells. Priddy is the venue for the Folk Festival and the Sheep Fair. The village also has the entrance to a vast cave system

Folk Festival

Fri 8th to Sun 10th July 2011

The friendliest folk festival in England, held at the beautiful village of Priddy, high on the magnificent Mendip Hills in sunny Somerset.

Sheep Fair

The 2011 Priddy Sheep Fair is being held on 24th August 2011.

All the usual attractions will be there including country stalls and country craft demonstrations, the sheep auction, horse trading, fun fair, food and cider. The auction usually starts at around 11am.

Cave System

Cavers can follow the stream through several water-filled sections to a point 170 m directly below the Queen Victoria Inn on Priddy Green.

Quite a nerve racking descent for first timers.

The Priddy Caves System contains about 16km of surveyed cave passages divided between a number of major and minor networks. All the caves aresink hole systems, fed by sink holes at the ground surface. In all the caves the detailed disposition and form of the passages can be seen clearly to have followed marked lines of natural weakness in the rocks.

The three largest networks Swildon's Hole St Cuthberts Swallet and Eastwater Cavern, exceed 100 metres in depth. Swildon's Hole is a world famous example of a shallow depth cave, which shows a very well developed pattern of drainage and contains extensive clastic and stalagmite fills. Hunter's Hole is an excellent example of a shaft complex draining a closed depression. This cave differs from the others at Priddy in apparently not having formed as a stream swallet. Cave sediments found within the systems, together with the information which can be deduced from the physical form of the caves, provide geologists with the means to obtain a better understanding of the geological evolution of southern Britain during the Ice Ages.

Priddy and the local area offers quality accommodation for those visiting the area. You will find a beautiful village ideally positioned to explore the wider Mendip Hills.

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