Cheddar Gorge & Mendips loop
Drive · 21 miles · 49 min · 7 stops
England's biggest gorge in your windscreen: through Cheddar's cliffs, up onto the Mendip plateau and back past Wookey Hole to Wells. Short, dramatic, perfect for an evening.
The B3135 through the gorge climbs 137m between cliffs almost 140m high, the closest thing England has to an alpine road. It's at its best on a summer evening after the coach crowds leave, and the Mendip lanes above are proper single-track England.
The route, stop by stop
- Wells
- Westbury-sub-Mendip
- Cheddar
- Cheddar Gorge
- Priddy
- Wookey Hole
- Wells
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