Cheddar Cheese, Gorge and Caves

This video was awarded a diploma at Festival of Dokumentary Film "Camera 300" in Macedonia, November 2009 and was shown at the festival.

Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge in the United Kingdom, near the village of Cheddar in the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. The gorge is the site of the Cheddar show caves, where Britain's oldest complete human skeleton, Cheddar Man, estimated to be 9,000 years old, was found in 1903.

Older remains from the Upper Late Palaeolithic era (12,00013,000 years ago) have been found. The caves, produced by the activity of an underground river, contain stalactites and stalagmites.

Cheddar Gorge, including the caves and other attractions (village stores and stalls etc), has become a tourist destination. In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, following its appearance on the 2005 television programme Seven Natural Wonders, Cheddar Gorge was named as the second greatest natural wonder in Britain, surpassed only by Dan yr Ogof caves. The gorge attracts about 500,000 visitors per year.

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Film & Animation

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• Cheddar
• Cheese
• Gorge
• Caves
• Seven
• Natural
• Wonders

[gumdroplou]

beautiful !!

[redash2006]

thanks lou

[DJ0VINNEY]

nice vid

[redash2006]

thanks

[peterpaulparker]

Cheddar Gorge is a wonderful place to visit and I would recommend it to anyone. I am hearing that phrase "due to EU regulation" too much now and I feel it is infringing on our lives in too big a way. Time to say enough is enough and get ourselves out of the European Union and start making our laws and regulations again which suit this country. And don't forget to try the cheese. It is delicious.