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
Deadman SSSI, Somerset surface horizon. It is at these points that bog communities develop, characterised by the floating leaves of bog pondweed ("Potamogeton polygonifolia"), bog bean ("Menyanthes trifoliata") and marsh St John's-wort ("Hypericum elodes"). In places this wet heath has undergone a transition to birch ("Betula" sp.) and willow ("Salix" sp.) carr. This provides an important habitat for breeding nightingales and grasshopper warblers. Deadman SSSI, Somerset Deadman () is a 28.8 hectare (71.2 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the edge of the Blackdown Hills, near Buckland St Mary south of Taunton in Somerset, notified in 1987. Deadman is one of