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 andMendip 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