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Ebbor Gorge At the end of our walk at Ebbor gorge, it was a welcome sight, This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Ebbor Gorge We saw this in Ebbor Woods, Ebbor Gorge, Somerset This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Ebbor Gorge Ebbor Woods at Ebbor Gorge, we were a bit too early for the Bluebells, This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Ebbor Gorge I am not sure what this bird is, I took the pic in the disused lime kiln at Ebbor Gorge, its not the clearest of pics though This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Ebbor Gorge You can just see Glastonbury tor in the Distance, from the viewing point in Ebbor Gorge This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 1 person has added this picture to their favourites |
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Ebbor Gorge Another view from Near Ebbor Gorge, Somerset, you really want a very clear day though This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Ebbor Gorge You certainly need a lovely clear day to see the view here across Somerset. taken from on the top of Ebbor Gorge This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Ebbor Gorge A disused old lime kiln at Ebbor Gorge, Somerset This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Ebbor Gorge Looking back down through the Gorge, taken Friday 17th April Ebbor Gorge. Somerset This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Ebbor Gorge Ebbor Gorge is a limestone gorge in Somerset, England, designated and notified in 1952 as a 63.5-hectare (157-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Mendip Hills. It was donated to the National Trust in 1967 and is now managed by Natural England as a National Nature Reserve. The gorge was cut into the Clifton Down Limestone, an example of Carboniferous Limestone, by water. The floor of the gorge is impermeable Millstone Grit and Lower Coal Measures. The rare mineral mendipite has also been found. The site was occupied by humans in the Neolithic Era and their tools and flint arrow heads have been discovered, along with pottery from the Bronze Age. There are also fossils of small mammals from the Late Devensian. The nature reserve provides a habitat for a variety of flora and fauna, including flowers, butterflies and bats we first did this walk in 1987,you can just see two people up in front of us struggling, This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Ebbor gorge Ebbor Gorge lies on the southwest-facing slope of the Mendip Hills and consists of a steep-sided ravine cut into 350-million-year-old Carboniferous Limestone of the Dinantian. The gorge was cut into Clifton Down Limestone by meltwater in the Pleistocene Epoch.[1][2] The rocks of the area lie above a thrust fault formed during the Variscan orogeny.[3] Millstone Grit and Lower Coal Measures form an impermeable floor to this valley. An example of the rare mineral mendipite was found at the head of the gorge.[4] A stream issuing to the west of the site runs down the tributary valley of Hope Wood before joining the main gorge. The original watercourse which may have cut the gorge into the limestone became diverted underground and now emerges at Wookey Hole Caves to form the River Axe' This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Ebbor gorge One of the caves in Ebbor Gorge, as usual we always climb the hard way then find the easy path to go back down, Somerset This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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