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Mendip Hills

BBC News 29 Mar 2025
A new report says Somerset's Mendip Hills nature reserve is of international importance due to its archaeology and more than half a million years of occupation, settlement and land use.
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The Cold War secrets behind a Somerset butterfly sanctuary

BBC News 23 Mar 2025
On a windswept hillside in the Mendip Hills, butterflies now drift between wildflowers at Westbury Beacon nature reserve ... .
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20 million trees to be planted for first national forest in 30 years

The Times/The Sunday Times 21 Mar 2025
England’s first new national forest in 30 years is to be created between the Cotswolds and the Mendip Hills near Bristol, the government has announced ... About 20 million trees will be planted in the coming decades ... UK. Environment ... ENVIRONMENT ... .
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Britain's 'best places to live' in 2025 are revealed - does YOURS make the list? ...

The Daily Mail 21 Mar 2025
Its circular keep is set high on a hill high above the sea where it has watched over the residents for centuries ... Only five miles south of its closest city, it forms part of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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Mendip Hills snake sculptures urge walkers to mind the adders

BBC News 12 Mar 2025
The project hopes to stop endangered European adders being disturbed during their breeding season. .
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