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
Mottisfont Bats SSSI Brown long-eared, Common and Soprano Pipistrelles, Serotine, Noctule, Daubenton's and Natterer's. Mottisfont contains a mix of woodland types including hazel coppice with standards, broadleaved plantation and coniferous plantation. Mottisfont Bats SSSI Mottisfont Bats SSSI () is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire, notified in 2003. It is also a Special Area of Conservation. The site consists of woods around Mottisfont, which supports a population of the Barbastelle bat which is considered by Natural England to be of national importance. The site is used by the Barbastelles for breeding, roosting, commuting and feeding. It is the only known