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
Newton St Loe SSSI history of early glaciation within South West England. The citation sheet for this SSSI describes the site as follows: The bodies of mammoths ("Mammuthus") and horses ("Equus") have been found at the site. It was not possible to identify the species however, due to the poor state of the specimens. Newton St Loe SSSI Newton St Loe SSSI () is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) close to the River Avon, near the village of Newton St Loe in Bath and North East Somerset. It was notified on September 1992. It is 2.26 hectares in size. The site