Wookey Hole Caves Wookey Hole Caves Wookey Hole Caves () are a series of limestone caverns, a show cave and tourist attraction in the village of Wookey Hole on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset, England. The River Axe flows through the cave. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for both biological and geological reasons. Wookey Hole cave is a "solutional cave", one that is formed by a process of weathering in which the natural acid in groundwater dissolves the rocks. Some water originates as rain that flows into streams on impervious rocks on the
Badgeworth SSSI, Gloucestershire Badgeworth SSSI, Gloucestershire Badgeworth SSSI () is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire notified in 1954 and renotified in 1983. Part of this site () is owned and managed by the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust as a nature reserve. There are two units of assessment. The nature reserve is unit 1 and the northerly field is unit 2. It is one of only two sites in the United Kingdom where the Adder's-tongue Spearwort ("Ranunculus ophioglossifolius") occurs; in Gloucestershire this species has acquired the name "Badgeworth buttercup" through its association with this site. The site is near the Gloucestershire