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Discover Sidcot
The district Sidcot of in North Somerset (England) is a district in United Kingdom about 117 mi west of London, the country's capital city.
Looking for a place to stay? we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
When in this area, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Churchill, Congresbury, Yatton, Burrington and St. Georges. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 12°C / 54 °F
Morning Temperature | 9°C / 49 °F |
Evening Temperature | 10°C / 51 °F |
Night Temperature | 6°C / 43 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 71% |
Air Pressure | 1020 hPa |
Wind Speed | Fresh Breeze with 14 km/h (8 mph) from South-East |
Cloud Conditions | Broken clouds, covering 80% of sky |
General Conditions | Light rain |
Saturday, 20th of April 2024
10°C (50 °F)
6°C (42 °F)
Few clouds, gentle breeze.
Sunday, 21st of April 2024
10°C (50 °F)
5°C (41 °F)
Broken clouds, moderate breeze.
Monday, 22nd of April 2024
10°C (50 °F)
7°C (45 °F)
Broken clouds, moderate breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
DoubleTree by Hilton Bristol South - Cadbury House
Lyncombe Lodge Hotel
Penscot Inn
BEST WESTERN WEBBINGTON HOTEL AND SPA
Holiday Inn BRISTOL AIRPORT
Bristol Sidcot (A38)
Videos from this area
These are videos related to the place based on their proximity to this place.
Chef gets a nosebleed
Chef riding trails, comes a cropper in his own unique way while filming for BMX video First Timers Collide.
Trip to the Frys Hill Repeater Site ( GB3FH and GB3FI )
Driving through the forest to get to the mast. Those gates are a pain when it's raining! Video taken with my Galaxy S3 phone in the dash holder, hence you get half the car in the frame! Sorry!
Tom and Jake | Winscombe session
Just a short edit of mine and tom's session after school. It was a good day so we made the most of it and put an edit together! Filmed on my gopro hero 3 silver. Enjoy!
Lakeside Holiday Park, Burnham-On-Sea
Caravan Holiday park in Burnham-On-Sea, Somerset. Ideally located near the long, sandy beach of Burnham & the local town. Perfect for a family holiday. The park has its own outdoor swimming...
Day 6 - Axbridge to Chepstow
This is the infamous Strawberry Line where Pete fell off in the tunnel! We hit the coast at Clevedon and followed the Severn up to the bridge. http://www.treesofhope.net http://www.justgiving.c...
Hidden camera -- See magician getting changed! (Certificate 12) - Gingermagic TV and MGS Ski
Damian got back late from a bike ride yesterday. He had to leave again quickly to be on time for his gig. Here's the secret footage of him getting changed. Look out for the glimpse of flesh...
Project and Product Environments: What is the difference and why does it matter
Do we need Project Managers any more? Do we need the concept of a project any more? Has the move to agile meant that these ideas are no longer relevant in today's world? At KRC we are finding...
Beau not swimming
Whilst Jon and Darren were out sailing on Cheddar Reservoir Beau was having his own adventure...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Cheddar Gorge
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. Older remains from the Upper Late Palaeolithic era (12,000–13,000 years ago) have been found. The caves, produced by the activity of an underground river, contain stalactites and stalagmites.
Thatchers Cider
Thatchers Cider is a cider maker based in Sandford, in North Somerset, England. The company started producing cider in 1904 and has continued in the same family since. They use several varieties of apples to make different brands, and also process other fruit to make Pear Cider.
Cadbury Hill
Cadbury Hill is a small hill, mostly in the civil parish of Congresbury, overlooking the village of Yatton in North Somerset. On its summit stands an Iron Age hill fort, which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Cheddar Reservoir
Cheddar Reservoir is an artificial reservoir in Somerset, England, operated by Bristol Water. Dating from the 1930s it has a capacity of 135 million gallons (614,000 cubic metres). The reservoir is supplied with water taken from the Cheddar Yeo river in Cheddar Gorge. The inlet grate for the 54 inches water pipe that is used to transport the water can be seen immediately upstream from the sensory garden in Cheddar Gorge.
Black Down, Somerset
Black Down is the highest hill in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, in south-western England. Black Down lies just a few miles eastward of the Bristol Channel at Weston-super-Mare, and provides a view over the Chew Valley. The summit is marked with an Ordnance Survey trig point, the base of which has been rebuilt by the Mendip Hills AONB authority. The shortest route of ascent goes from the Burrington Combe car park and is approximately 1 km long.
RAF Locking
RAF Locking was a Royal Air Force base at Locking just outside Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. Slightly north of the base is the site of Locking Castle a motte and bailey castle on Carberry Hill. It has been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Gough's Cave
Gough's Cave is located in Cheddar Gorge on the Mendip Hills, in Cheddar, Somerset, England. The cave is 90 metres deep and is 2.135 kilometres long, and contains a variety of large chambers and rock formations. It contains the Cheddar Yeo, the largest underground river system in Britain.
Cox's Cave
Cox's Cave is in Cheddar Gorge on the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. It is open to the public as a show cave. The cave is named after mill owner George Cox who discovered it in 1837, while quarrying limestone for a new building. Cox immediately opened it as a show cave and ran it as a private enterprise until landowner, Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath, took it over at the beginning of the 20th century. The cave consists of seven small grottoes, joined by low archways.
Aveline's Hole
Aveline's Hole is a cave at Burrington Combe in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. The earliest scientifically dated cemetery in Britain was found at Aveline's Hole. The human bone fragments it contained, from about 21 different individuals, are thought to be between roughly 10,200 and 10,400 years old. A series of inscribed crosses found on the wall of the Aveline's Hole cave are believed to date from the early Mesolithic period just after the Ice Age.
Batts Combe quarry
Batts Combe quarry, grid reference ST460550 is a limestone quarry on the edge of Cheddar village on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. It has been operating since the early 20th century and is currently owned and operated by Singleton Birch Ltd. The output in 2005 was around 4,000 tonnes of limestone per day, one third of which was supplied to an on-site lime kiln, the remainder being sold as coated or dusted aggregates.
Callow Rock quarry
Callow Rock quarry is a limestone quarry located between Cheddar and Shipham on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. The quarry has been operating since the early 20th century and is now operated by Bardon Aggregates.
Cleeve Toot
Cleeve Toot is an Iron Age hillfort above Goblin Combe, Cleeve, Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. It is a roughly oval settlement which is approximately 125 metres in length by 90 metres in breadth. Approximately 150 metres to the north is another, smaller settlement. They are thought to have been a satellite community of nearby Cadbury Hill Pits have been found at the site indicating the presence of round houses.
Congresbury railway station
Congresbury railway station was a station at Congresbury on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Somerset and the junction for the Wrington Vale Light Railway to Blagdon. The station was opened with the broad gauge line to Cheddar in August 1869 as a single-platform station. The railway was extended to Wells in 1870, converted to standard gauge in the mid-1870s and then linked up to the East Somerset Railway to provide through services from Yatton to Witham in 1878.
Sandford and Banwell railway station
Sandford and Banwell railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Sandford, Somerset, England. The station is a Grade II listed building. The station can be viewed from the Strawberry Line Trail, which runs adjacent to the site.
Winscombe railway station
Winscombe railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Winscombe, Somerset. The station was opened as "Woodborough" with the broad gauge line to Cheddar in August 1869 as a single-platform station. The railway was extended to Wells in 1870, converted to standard gauge in the mid-1870s and then linked up to the East Somerset Railway to provide through services from Yatton to Witham in 1878.
Axbridge railway station
Axbridge railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Axbridge, Somerset. Axbridge was one of the principal stations for the transport of strawberries, which led to the line's alternative name as The Strawberry Line. The station was opened with the broad gauge line to Cheddar in August 1869 as a two-platform station.
Cheddar Ales
Cheddar Ales is a small independent brewery located in the village of Cheddar in Somerset, England, which produces a range of regular and seasonal beers. Its owner and head brewer, Jem Ham, previously worked 15 years at Butcombe Brewery in nearby Wrington.
Pierre's Pot
Pierre's Pot is a cave in Burrington Combe on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. The cave was discovered in 1983 and has two main levels, the lower level being reached through an extremely tight rift. There is an active streamway and sump which, following a 15 m dive, leads to another streamway and a number of passages. The derivation of the cave's name is from one of the nicknames of Mike "Fish" Jeanmarie of the Axbridge Caving Group in the early 1960s.
Mendips Raceway
Mendips Raceway is a motorsport venue in the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. It is located on the rim of Batts Combe quarry between Shipham and Charterhouse. The oval shaped circuit is used for racing hot rods, stock cars, Hotstox, bangers and demolition events. The circuit, which was opened in 1969, features an oval and a figure of eight layout.
Church of St John the Baptist, Churchill
The Church of St John the Baptist in Churchill, Somerset, England, was largely built around 1360 and is a Grade I listed building. There was a Norman chapel on this site in 1180, from which the nave has survived into the present church. The stone font dates from around 1200, although the wooden font cover was added in 1879 when there was a revival in gothic designs. The stained glass windows are from a variety of periods.
Shute Shelve Cavern
Shute Shelve Cavern is a natural cave system located in Shute Shelve Hill, Somerset, England above Axbridge in the Mendip Hills not far from Cheddar. It was mined for its yellow ochre which was used as a dye in paint making, until the 1920s, which gave it its alternative name of Axbridge Ochre Mine. Access is controlled by the Axbridge Caving Group via a locked gate and completely closed during the bats' roosting season.
Winscombe R.F.C
Winscombe RFC is an English amateur rugby club that is based in the village of Winscombe. They play in the Tribute Somerset Premier league. For a small Somerset village the club is large, with three senior teams and over 300 children registered to play at mini and junior level. Founded in 1962, Winscombe Rugby Football Club is one of the newest clubs in the south-west of England. They play at the Winscombe War Memorial Recreation Ground, also known as the Rec.
Tyning's Barrow Swallet
Tyning's Barrow Swallet is a cave between Charterhouse and Shipham in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. The cave is close to GB Cave and also to Charterhouse Cave, the deepest cave in the region. Tyning's Barrow Swallet is 1.29 km in length and reaches a depth of 132 m .
LeisureDome, Weston-super-Mare
LeisureDome is a proposed indoor ski slope that will be built in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. It will be located on the site of the former RAF Locking, which closed in 1999. Planning permission for the LeisureDome was granted by North Somerset Council on 21 July 2011. Subject to final approval by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, construction, which will cost £50 million, is expected to commence in December 2011.
Brinsea
Brinsea is a hamlet in North Somerset, England. It is in the parish of Congresbury, 1 mile south of the larger village, on the B3133 towards Lower Langford. The Mendip Spring Golf and Country Club is within the hamlet.