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Bakehouse Copse

Wood, Forest in Somerset Mendip

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Bakehouse Copse

Car parked at the start of Fental Lane, Ukrainian flag on fence
Car parked at the start of Fental Lane, Ukrainian flag on fence Credit: Rob Purvis

Bakehouse Copse is a charming woodland located in Somerset, England. Nestled in the heart of the county, this copse is a hidden gem for nature enthusiasts and those seeking a peaceful retreat. Spanning across several acres, Bakehouse Copse is a picturesque forest that showcases the natural beauty of the Somerset landscape.

The copse is predominantly made up of deciduous trees, including oak, beech, and ash, which create a dense canopy overhead. This provides a cool and shady environment, perfect for leisurely walks and picnics on hot summer days. The forest floor is adorned with a carpet of wildflowers, adding bursts of color to the green surroundings.

Bakehouse Copse is home to a diverse range of wildlife, making it a haven for nature lovers. Birdwatchers can spot various species, including robins, blackbirds, and woodpeckers, while keen-eyed visitors might catch a glimpse of the elusive deer that roam the forest. The copse is also home to a variety of small mammals, such as hedgehogs and rabbits.

There are several well-maintained trails that wind through the copse, allowing visitors to explore its beauty at their own pace. These paths are suitable for walkers of all ages and abilities, making it an ideal destination for families and avid hikers alike.

Bakehouse Copse offers a tranquil escape from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Its natural beauty and diverse wildlife make it a must-visit destination for anyone seeking a peaceful and immersive experience in the heart of Somerset.

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Images are sourced within 2km of 51.200587/-2.463206 or Grid Reference ST6744. Thanks to Geograph Open Source API. All images are credited.

Car parked at the start of Fental Lane, Ukrainian flag on fence
Car parked at the start of Fental Lane, Ukrainian flag on fence
Tadhill House Farm buildings
Tadhill House Farm buildings
Old Milepost by A361, village of Dean The Milepost is located on the grass verge near houses on the South of the road.  Parish of Cranmore (Mendip District). Cast iron post, plated iron casting design, erected by the Shepton Mallet turnpike trust in the 19th Century. It has been broken and welded back together (on back of top "BUCI") and repositioned. A photograph before the repainting can be found here: <a title="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6072295" href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6072295">Link</a>  Inscription reads:- SHEPTON / MALLET / 4 : : FROME / 8 : : LONDON / 111 Milestone Society National ID: SO_SMFR04
Old Milepost by A361, village of Dean
The Milepost is located on the grass verge near houses on the South of the road.  Parish of Cranmore (Mendip District). Cast iron post, plated iron casting design, erected by the Shepton Mallet turnpike trust in the 19th Century. It has been broken and welded back together (on back of top "BUCI") and repositioned. A photograph before the repainting can be found here: Link  Inscription reads:- SHEPTON / MALLET / 4 : : FROME / 8 : : LONDON / 111 Milestone Society National ID: SO_SMFR04
Old Milestone by Old Wells Road, near Tadhill House Farm The Milestone is located on grass verge on the South of the road.  Parish of Downhead (Mendip District). Stone post (plate lost), Frome square iron plate design, erected by the Frome turnpike trust in the 18th Century, plate repainted by MSS summer 2009. An earlier photograph can be found here: <a title="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6037568" href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6037568">Link</a> Inscription reads:- Frome / 6 / Wells / 9 Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1345266 <span class="nowrap"><a title="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1345266" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1345266">Link</a><img style="margin-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="https://s1.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/></span> Milestone Society National ID: SO_FRWL06
Old Milestone by Old Wells Road, near Tadhill House Farm
The Milestone is located on grass verge on the South of the road.  Parish of Downhead (Mendip District). Stone post (plate lost), Frome square iron plate design, erected by the Frome turnpike trust in the 18th Century, plate repainted by MSS summer 2009. An earlier photograph can be found here: Link Inscription reads:- Frome / 6 / Wells / 9 Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1345266 LinkExternal link Milestone Society National ID: SO_FRWL06
2011 : The former Church of St.James, East Cranmore "The origin of the name Cranmore comes from the Old English Crane Mere meaning 'Cranes/herons' pool'." Copied from <span class="nowrap"><a title="http://www.cranmore.org/" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" href="http://www.cranmore.org/">Link</a><img style="margin-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="https://s1.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/></span> a most interesting website. Seen from the other side in <a href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/485732">ST6843 : Former church at East Cranmore</a>
2011 : The former Church of St.James, East Cranmore
"The origin of the name Cranmore comes from the Old English Crane Mere meaning 'Cranes/herons' pool'." Copied from LinkExternal link a most interesting website. Seen from the other side in ST6843 : Former church at East Cranmore
2011 : Western Farm, Cranmore On the road between Cranmore and East Cranmore. Farm land and buildings currently for sale.
2011 : Western Farm, Cranmore
On the road between Cranmore and East Cranmore. Farm land and buildings currently for sale.
2011 : Withy Wood Lane, Cranmore Heading away to almost nowhere, and very pleasant it is when you get there. The road turning off to the right goes to pretty much the same place.
2011 : Withy Wood Lane, Cranmore
Heading away to almost nowhere, and very pleasant it is when you get there. The road turning off to the right goes to pretty much the same place.
2011 : Withy Wood Lane heading east The shrubs and trees are in the garden of a private house.
2011 : Withy Wood Lane heading east
The shrubs and trees are in the garden of a private house.
2011 : Quarry buildings at Merehead Quarry More accurately Torr Works Quarry. A limestone quarry run by Foster Yeoman, Merehead is the name of the railhead at the quarry. Culled from; <span class="nowrap"><a title="http://www.mindat.org/loc-1618.html" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" href="http://www.mindat.org/loc-1618.html">Link</a><img style="margin-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="https://s1.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/></span> And from: <span class="nowrap"><a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merehead_Quarry" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merehead_Quarry">Link</a><img style="margin-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="https://s1.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/></span> "The site covers an area of some 200 hectares, including 60 hectares which have been landscaped to blend with the surrounding countryside. It is operated by the Aggregate Industries Company employing over 200 people and produces 6 million tonnes of limestone annually which is carried directly from the quarry by Mendip Rail. A Geodiversity audit of the site recorded pale to dark grey well bedded Carboniferous Limestone dipping consistently southwards with a small area of overlying horizontally bedded buff-coloured Jurassic oolitic limestone forming an angular unconformity."
2011 : Quarry buildings at Merehead Quarry
More accurately Torr Works Quarry. A limestone quarry run by Foster Yeoman, Merehead is the name of the railhead at the quarry. Culled from; LinkExternal link And from: LinkExternal link "The site covers an area of some 200 hectares, including 60 hectares which have been landscaped to blend with the surrounding countryside. It is operated by the Aggregate Industries Company employing over 200 people and produces 6 million tonnes of limestone annually which is carried directly from the quarry by Mendip Rail. A Geodiversity audit of the site recorded pale to dark grey well bedded Carboniferous Limestone dipping consistently southwards with a small area of overlying horizontally bedded buff-coloured Jurassic oolitic limestone forming an angular unconformity."
2011 : Quarry Way Business Park, For a list of its denizens see the board.
2011 : Quarry Way Business Park,
For a list of its denizens see the board.
2011 : Road to Wellington Farm, East Cranmore This is within half a mile of one of the largest quarries on the Mendips yet there is no sight and very little sound of it.
2011 : Road to Wellington Farm, East Cranmore
This is within half a mile of one of the largest quarries on the Mendips yet there is no sight and very little sound of it.
2011 : Main road through East Cranmore The gateway on the right gives access to <a href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2357732">ST6843 : 2011 : The former Church of St.James, East Cranmore</a> A little about East Cranmore in <span class="nowrap"><a title="http://www.francisfrith.com/east-cranmore/#utmcsr=bing.com&utmcmd=referral&utmccn=bing.com" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" href="http://www.francisfrith.com/east-cranmore/#utmcsr=bing.com&utmcmd=referral&utmccn=bing.com">Link</a><img style="margin-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="https://s1.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/></span>
2011 : Main road through East Cranmore
The gateway on the right gives access to ST6843 : 2011 : The former Church of St.James, East Cranmore A little about East Cranmore in LinkExternal link
2011 : Fields and view from the lane east of Cranmore Cranmore Tower [<a href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/ST6745">ST6745</a>] lifts its head above surrounding trees on the horizon. A small beech wood begins showing its leaves, the foreground field looks a little sad, not sure what crop it contains.
2011 : Fields and view from the lane east of Cranmore
Cranmore Tower [ST6745] lifts its head above surrounding trees on the horizon. A small beech wood begins showing its leaves, the foreground field looks a little sad, not sure what crop it contains.
2011 : Over the fields to Cranmore Seen from the road between Cranmore and East Cranmore. The Church of St. Bartholomew is outstanding.
2011 : Over the fields to Cranmore
Seen from the road between Cranmore and East Cranmore. The Church of St. Bartholomew is outstanding.
2011 : Fields near Western Farm, Cranmore Looking north west from the road between Cranmore and East Cranmore.
2011 : Fields near Western Farm, Cranmore
Looking north west from the road between Cranmore and East Cranmore.
2011 : Fields and hedgerows near Western Farm Seen from the road to Cranmore. Cattle in the next field enjoy the new spring grass. Care must be taken to ensure they do not enjoy too much of it and suffer from the bloat, a condition in which fermentation gases build up in the stomach, usually painful, sometimes fatal if not treated. These gases are rich in methane, the condition should not be relieved in the presence of a naked flame or other source of ignition, the results can be explosive. For more info visit: <span class="nowrap"><a title="http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/%24Department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex6769" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" href="http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/%24Department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex6769">Link</a><img style="margin-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="https://s1.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/></span>
2011 : Fields and hedgerows near Western Farm
Seen from the road to Cranmore. Cattle in the next field enjoy the new spring grass. Care must be taken to ensure they do not enjoy too much of it and suffer from the bloat, a condition in which fermentation gases build up in the stomach, usually painful, sometimes fatal if not treated. These gases are rich in methane, the condition should not be relieved in the presence of a naked flame or other source of ignition, the results can be explosive. For more info visit: LinkExternal link
2011 : Water tower, Cranmore Station, now finished Seen under construction in <a href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2023871">ST6643 : Cranmore : construction of brick base for a water tower </a> built, we are told, by one man working alone. Now in private hands this was once part of the GWR line running along the foot of the Mendips between Witham Friary and Axbridge and beyond until felled by the Beeching axe. More pictures of the water tower in: <span class="nowrap"><a title="http://www.eastsomersetrailway.com/gallery.php?gid=261" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" href="http://www.eastsomersetrailway.com/gallery.php?gid=261">Link</a><img style="margin-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="https://s1.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/></span>
2011 : Water tower, Cranmore Station, now finished
Seen under construction in ST6643 : Cranmore : construction of brick base for a water tower built, we are told, by one man working alone. Now in private hands this was once part of the GWR line running along the foot of the Mendips between Witham Friary and Axbridge and beyond until felled by the Beeching axe. More pictures of the water tower in: LinkExternal link
2011 : East from Withy Wood Lane The hedgerow across the picture hides the old GWR line from Witham Friary, now closed by the Beeching axe. Out of shot to the left an overbridge marks the eastern end of the East Somerset Railway.
2011 : East from Withy Wood Lane
The hedgerow across the picture hides the old GWR line from Witham Friary, now closed by the Beeching axe. Out of shot to the left an overbridge marks the eastern end of the East Somerset Railway.
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Bakehouse Copse is located at Grid Ref: ST6744 (Lat: 51.200587, Lng: -2.463206)

Administrative County: Somerset

District: Mendip

Police Authority: Avon and Somerset

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///blotting.outdone.zoned. Near Shepton Mallet, Somerset

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Located within 500m of 51.200587,-2.463206
Cranmore Tower
Access: customers
Construction: freestanding
Construction Date: 1860
Height: 40
Man Made: tower
Tower Type: observation
Website: http://www.cranmoretower.co.uk/
Wikidata: Q5182227
Lat/Long: 51.2035008/-2.4642501
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Man Made: tower
Note: O2 Telecommunication tower
Tower Type: communication
Lat/Long: 51.2039405/-2.4624728
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Man Made: tower
Note: O2 Telecommunication tower
Tower Type: communication
Lat/Long: 51.2033845/-2.4624904
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