Cheddar Gorge

Geoff has woken up with another cold. Not happy.

A slow start to the day and a few GPS mishaps caused a bit of tension.

We had gone to see King Johns Hunting lodge in Axbridge but the National Trust dot was totally in the wrong place. We finally found it but it wasn't opened so a few pictures was all we could manage.

 

We were fairly close to Cheddar Gorge so thought we would have a look. I have been fascinated by the story of Cheddar Man for many years and it was great to see the cave and learn about its history. We spent a few hours in Cheddar touring Goughs cave and museum and taking a short bus tour around the actual gorge. Quite expensive.

Bitterly cold day with intermittent rain. We had planned to see Bath today but it was after 3 and so cold and Geoff not wewhen we finished Cheddar Gorge so decided to head to our accommodation

Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Cheddar, Somerset, England. The gorge is the site of the Cheddar show caves, where Britain's oldest complete human skeleton, Cheddar Man, estimated to be over 9,000 years old, was found in 1903.The caves, produced by the activity of an underground river, contain stalactites and stalagmites.

The gorge was formed by meltwater floods during the cold periglacial periods which have occurred over the last 1.2 million years. During the ice ages permafrost blocked the caves with ice and frozen mud and made the limestone impermeable. When this melted during the summers, water was forced to flow on the surface, and carved out the gorge.[9] During warmer periods the water flowed underground through the permeable limestone, creating the caves and leaving the gorge dry, so that today much of the gorge has no river until the underground Cheddar Yeo river emerges in the lower part from Gough's Cave. T

Bitterly cold day with intermittent rain. We had planned to see Bath today but it was after 3 and so cold and Geoff not well so we finished Cheddar Gorge so decided to head to our accommodation.