Wookey Hole Caves planning permission. 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
King's Wood and Urchin Wood SSSI variety of conifer species including Douglas fir "(Pseudotsuga menziesii)", Lawson’s cypress "(Chamaecyparis lawsoniana)" and Norway spruce "(Picea abies)" . These crop trees have, however, largely been unsuccessful and the replanted areas are now being overtaken by hardwoods. King’s Wood supports nationally important populations of the rare and endangered greater horseshoe bat "(Rhinolophus ferrumequinum)" and dormice "(Muscardinus avellanarius)", and a nationally scarce Chrysomelid beetle "(Clytra quadripunctata)". King's Wood and Urchin Wood SSSI King's Wood and Urchin Wood SSSI () is a 128.1 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the villages of Cleeve and Congresbury, North Somerset, notified in 1990.