Organisation

URL

 

Mendip Hills AONB Service

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

www.mendiphillsaonb.org.uk

 

National Association for AONBs

www.aonb.org.uk

Countryside Agency

http://www.countryside.gov.uk

see  AONBs Page
and
Mendip Hills AONB Page

 

Mendip District Council

Local Authorities & organisations

http://www.mendip.gov.uk/

Sedgemoor District Council

http://www.sedgemoor.gov.uk/

North Somerset Council

http://www.n-somerset.gov.uk

Bath & NE Somerset Council

http://www.bathnes.gov.uk

Somerset County Council

http://www.somerset.gov.uk

Somerset Records Office

http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives
(includes the whole of the old County of Somerset)

Avon Wildlife Trust

http://www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk/

Somerset Wildlife Trust

http://www.somersetwildlife.org/

Goblin Combe Environment Centre

http://www.goblincombe.org.uk

 

Planning & National Policy
 

Planning Policy Database Search

http://www.databases.detr.gov.uk/planning/npp

Planning Inspectorate

http://www.planning-inspectorate.gov.uk

 

National Trust

Other national bodies and promotions

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk   

(NB only for policy: there are no non-paying sites listed on the NT web site!)

English Nature 

http://www.english-nature.org.uk

Environment Agency

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk

Quiet Roads & Greenways Web Site

http://www.quiet-roads.gov.uk

 

Blagdon Village

Walks and Places to Visit; other Events

http://www.blagdon.org

Bleadon Parish Council

http://www.bleadonparishcouncil.gov.uk

Bristol Ramblers

http://www.bristolramblers.org.uk

Cam Valley Wildlife Group

http://www.camvalleywildlifegroup.org.uk

Cheddar

http://www.cheddarsomerset.co.uk

Chew Magna

http://www.chewmagna.co.uk

Glastonbury Conservation Society

http://www.glastonburyconservation.org.uk

Gower Society (S. Wales)

http://www.gowersociety.welshnet.co.uk

The Gower is also Carboniferous Limestone AONB and the Gower Society has an organisation similar to the Mendip Society. See Newsletter Issue 103

Lead Mineries

http://freespace.virgin.net/thirdman.webmaster/places/mendip.html

Leigh

http://www.leigh-on-mendip.org.uk

Loxton

http://www.loxton-village.org.uk

Mendip Walk

http://www.studio44.co.uk/HSF/mendip_photos.htm

Pensford

http://www.pensford.com

Radstock & Midsomer Norton

http://www.midsomernorton.co.uk

Sandford

see Winscombe & Sandford

Shepton Mallet

http://www.shepton-mallet.org.uk

Somerset & Dorset J.R.

http://www.lanternfilms.ukphotographers.com/mendip.htm

Westbury-sub-Mendip

http://westbury-sub-mendip.org.uk

West Harptree

http://www.harptree.co.uk/

Wells

http://www.wells-uk.com/

West Mendip Way

http://www.btinternet.com/~Andrew.Janet/mendip

Winscombe and Sandford

http://www.winscombeandsandfordpc.org.uk/

Wrington

http://www.wrington.org.uk

Avon Local History Association (with some fifty groups in the former Avon county area)

Reference Sources

http://www.jonathanalha.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre

http://www.brerc.org.uk

Somerset Archive & Records Service

http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/

Chew Valley Gazette

http://fp.dsaf9.f9.co.uk/cvg/

"Clearasmud.org.uk" - a new, easy to access web-based directory of local community groups and their activities

http://www.clearasmud.org.uk

 

First Badgerline Bus Services

Entertainment and Transport

http://www.firstbadgerline.co.uk/

The Gorge Outdoors

http://www.thegorgeoutdoors.co.uk/acatalog/index.html

Cheddar Gorge and Show Caves

http://www.visitcheddar.co.uk

Wookey Hole Caves

http://www.wookey.co.uk

Trace relatives and descendants in the Cross, Compton Bishop area

Family History and personal contacts

http://www.comptonbishopfamilies.co.uk

Contact point for former local residents of the Compton Bishop area and their descendants now living elsewhere

margaret.jordan@which.net