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Cheddar Gorge is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom and includes several show caves including Gough's Cave.
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As early as 1130 AD, the Cheddar Gorge was recognised as one of the " Four wonders of England ".
Cheddar Gorge c. 1907
Cheddar Gorge, which is located on the edge of the village, is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom.
Cheddar Gorge, including Cox's Cave, Gough's Cave and other attractions, has become a tourist destination, attracting about 500, 000 visitors per year.
In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, following its appearance on the 2005 television programme Seven Natural Wonders, Cheddar Gorge was named as the second greatest natural wonder in Britain, surpassed only by the Dan yr Ogof caves.
The reservoir is supplied with water taken from the Cheddar Yeo, which rises in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge and is a tributary of the River Axe.
The inlet grate for the water pipe that is used to transport the water can be seen next to the sensory garden in Cheddar Gorge.
It includes four SSSIs, formerly known as Cheddar Gorge SSSI, August Hole / Longwood Swallet SSSI, GB Cavern Charterhouse SSSI and Charterhouse on-Mendip SSSI.
Batts Combe Quarry from the lookout tower above Cheddar Gorge
Cheddar Gorge on the edge of the village contains a number of caves, which provided the ideal humidity and constant temperature for maturing the cheese.
As with other hard cheese varieties produced worldwide, caves provide an ideal environment for maturing cheese ; still, today, some Cheddar cheese is matured in the caves at Wookey Hole and Cheddar Gorge.
Cheddar cheese maturing in the caves at Cheddar Gorge
Only one producer of the cheese is now based in Cheddar itself, The Cheddar Gorge Cheese Co.
There is evidence of human habitation in the caves at Cheddar Gorge 10, 000 – 11, 000 years BC, during a partial thaw in the ice age.
Britain's oldest complete skeleton, Cheddar Man, lived at Cheddar Gorge around 7150 BC ( the Upper Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age ), shortly after the end of the ice age ;< ref >
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Cheddar is a large village and civil parish in the Sedgemoor district of the English county of Somerset.
The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese and has been a centre for strawberry growing, with the crop being transported on the Cheddar Valley line, which closed in the late 1960s but is now a cycle path.
It is now a major tourist destination with several cultural and community facilities, including the Cheddar Show Caves Museum.
There is evidence of occupation from the Neolithic period in Cheddar.
Cheddar is recognised as a village.
The adjacent settlement of Axbridge, although only about a third the population of Cheddar, is a town.
Cheddar is twinned with Felsberg, Germany and Vernouillet, France, and it has an active programme of exchange visits.
The gorge is the site of the Cheddar Caves, where Cheddar Man was found in 1903.
Cheddar Reservoir is a near-circular artificial reservoir operated by Bristol Water.
Cheddar Wood is one of only a few English stations for Starved Wood-sedge ( Carex depauperata ).
By far the largest of the SSSIs is called Cheddar Complex and covers of the gorge, caves and the surrounding area.
Along with the rest of South West England, Cheddar has a temperate climate which is generally wetter and milder than the rest of the country.
The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese, which is the most popular type of cheese in the United Kingdom.
Cheddar Ales is a small brewery based in the village, producing beer for local public houses.
Around 15 percent of employment in Sedgemoor is provided by tourism, but within Cheddar it is estimated to employ as many as 1, 000 people.
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The largest producer of industrial Cheddar style cheese in the United States, Kraft, uses a combination of annatto and oleoresin paprika, an extract of the lipophilic ( oily ) portion of paprika.
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Tourism of the Cheddar gorge and caves began with the opening of the Cheddar Valley Railway in 1869.
Cheddar, its surrounding villages and specifically the gorge has been subject to flooding.
Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Cheddar in 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.
Cheddar is a gorge lying on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills.
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.
The gorge is part of a Site of Special Scientific Interest now called Cheddar Complex.
The Cheddar pink, ( Dianthus gratianopolitanus ), also known as firewitch, a type of Dianthus only grows in the wild in the gorge.
The nationally rare little robin geranium ( purpureum ), and Cheddar bedstraw ( Galium fleurotii ) and the nationally scarce species include slender tare ( Vicia tenuissima ), dwarf mouse-ear ( Cerastium pumilum ) and rock stonecrop ( Sedum forsteranum ) also occur in the gorge.
The Cheddar whitebeam, which has evolved as a cross between the common whitebeam and the grey-leaved whitebeam, is unique to the gorge, but its survival is threatened by the goats that were introduced specifically to keep down the growth of new trees and encourage the proliferation of rare plant species such as the Cheddar pink.
Cheddar cheese is made in the lower part of the gorge.
View of Cheddar Village, Cheddar Reservoir | reservoir, Batts Combe quarry and gorge taken from the watchtower at the top of Jacob's Ladder
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