Discover how limestone cliffs, outcrops, caves and screes, distinctive features of the Mendip Hills, are home to distinctive vegetation communities including many rare plants.
Discover how the quarrying industry, and associated other transport and related service industries have had an important role in the local economy for many years.
Find out about the ways in which we use quarried stone and discover how stone in some form enters our lives probably a hundred times even before we leave the house each day.
Discover the semi-natural habitats of the Mendip Hills that have developed as a consequence of a complex interaction of underlying geology, soils, aspect, climate, and a range of other factors.
Find out about how earthquakes occured in the area as a result of the tectonic forces that created the Mendip Hills hundreds of millions of years ago. A summary of a presentation by David Rowley at the finale of the Mendip Rocks! Festival 2017.