Tags: Site Of Special Scientific Interest.
Cheddar Wood (grid reference ST445552) is a 86.9 hectares (215 acres) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Cheddar in the Mendip Hills Somerset England notified in 1967. Cheddar Wood and the smaller Macall’s Wood near Cheddar Gorge are what remains of the wood of the Bishops of Bath and Wells in the thirteenth century and of King Edmund the Magnificent’s wood in the tenth. It lies on carboniferous limestone with rock showing through the thin topsoils.
