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Cheddar Gorge

Cheddar Gorge

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Nov 3, 2026

JoelHOST
48:43
Okay, and in that you get unlimited entry to Longleat, unlimited entry to the Festival of Light.
JoelHOST
48:49
Also, you've got entry to Cheddar Gorge and the caves.
JoelHOST
48:52
Plus, there's some discounts as well.
JoelHOST
48:54
So basically, it's just an annual membership to Longleat for one adult or the Mega Dragonite EX Gold.
Steve StocktonHOST
68:33
It's a place completely honeycombed with subterranean rivers, hidden caverns, and deep, lightless sinkholes.
Steve StocktonHOST
68:40
Places like Cheddar Gorge and Wookie Hole have been steeped in myth and human occupation since the Paleolithic era.
Steve StocktonHOST
68:48
Now, when a landscape is this porous, the local folklore naturally reflects the geography.
Steve StocktonHOST
68:53
The earth, it's not solid here.
Gary ComerfordHOST
13:18
We actually travelled an additional 20 miles of distance on the road before we lost any more range on the GOM.
Gary ComerfordHOST
13:25
In fact, this year's London to Brighton to Land's End EV Rally had a challenge at Cheddar Gorge.
Gary ComerfordHOST
13:32
We had to note our range at the top, drive down the gorge and note how much range we'd regenerated over the distance.
Gary ComerfordHOST
13:41
Over a measured 3.3 miles as checked by Google Maps, my range increased by two miles.
Dan StevensGUEST
2:07
And at this point, as we do this chat, there are people in caves right now.
Dan StevensGUEST
2:11
There are people in Wookiee Hole, in Cheddar Gorge.
Dan StevensGUEST
2:13
There are people in Lanzarote, in caves.
Dan StevensGUEST
2:16
There are people visiting cave systems.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
70:19
It's a place completely honeycombed with subterranean rivers, hidden caverns, and deep, lightless sinkholes.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
70:26
Places like Cheddar Gorge and Wookie Hole
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
70:29
have been steeped in myth and human occupation since the Paleolithic era.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
70:34
Now, when a landscape is this porous, the local
Dan SnowNARRATOR
1:24
Take a closer look and discover secrets that are disturbing and sometimes brutal.
speaker_1GUEST
1:33
Well, we've got material from Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, and this is some of the material we dug up in the late 1980s from our excavations there in really just a small area of the cave.
speaker_1GUEST
1:47
They're important because they represent people near the end of the last Ice Age in Britain, so they're the best sample we have of people from Britain at that time.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
1:58
15,000 years ago, northwestern Europe was a desolate, uninhabitable polar desert.
speaker_1GUEST
3:01
It may have been an act of desperation, because we know cases today when there has been a crisis, people have been stranded somewhere, an aeroplane has crashed in the mountains, and people in the end are forced to eat other people.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
3:19
British cannibals, could this be true? If so, these bones offer evidence of what some of the very first Englishmen may have been eating for dinner, each other.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
3:40
To investigate the mystery, we go to Cheddar Gorge, where paleontologists from the Natural History Museum discovered the puzzling bones.
speaker_2GUEST
3:49
Here we are in Gough's Cave cheddar in Somerset.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
67:40
It's a place completely honeycombed with subterranean rivers, hidden caverns, and deep lightless sinkholes.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
67:46
Places like Cheddar Gorge and Wookey Hole have been steeped in myth and human occupation since the Paleolithic era.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
67:54
Now, when a landscape is this porous, the local folklore naturally reflects the geography.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
68:00
The earth is not solid here.
Rebecca RidealHOST
37:26
was
Raksha DaveHOST
37:27
the Cheddar Gorge man, isn't it? Exactly.
Raksha DaveHOST
37:29
And I think that he remarkably looked like his ancestor.
Raksha DaveHOST
37:33
Did you see?
Chris Flynn and Neil HerbertHOST
74:38
Do you know what I mean? It feels like...
Chris Flynn and Neil HerbertHOST
74:40
It does feel like one of those bits of folklore, like, that you... you were in Wells Cathedral or something because you were visiting Cheddar Gorge on a school trip or something like that.
Chris Flynn and Neil HerbertHOST
74:51
Do you know what I mean? It feels like something like that.
Chris Flynn and Neil HerbertHOST
74:53
So I think a lot of people in the UK, if you asked them, have you ever heard of a Screaming Skull or something? I think a lot of people might go, maybe.
Lewis BrindleyHOST
33:22
wedding cake.
Lewis BrindleyHOST
33:23
Cheddar's nearby, isn't it? Is it in Cheddar, Wookie Hole? Cheddar Gorge and
SipsHOST
33:27
Wookie Hole are kind of like, you know.
Lewis BrindleyHOST
33:29
Yeah, I think I went there recently.

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