Cheddar & Rowberrow Warren Walk, Part X, 'Over The Stile to Velvet Bottom' by Sheila, July 14th 2016
Channel: semw52
Date: 2016-07-21

Here I climb over a stile after leaving the  Aerial masts up Rainy Lane----I wander across a field with Mendip sheep grazing and head towards the 'slag-heaps' remnants of the lead mining days at Velvet Bottom--now a protected nature reserve for birds, butterflies, wild flowers, ferns--a living landscape of wildlife and an area once mined by the Victorians and the Romans