Hill forts · South West England
Meare Lake Villages
Meare Lake Villages — historic site in Somerset, England, UK.
Roger Cornfoot — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
Meare Lake Villages is a hill fort in the United Kingdom. Heritage designation: scheduled monument. Wikidata describes it as: "historic site in Somerset, England, UK". Coordinates: 51.1760°, -2.7955°.
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Protected designations
- National Nature Reserve: SOMERSET WETLANDS
- Ramsar wetland: Severn Estuary
- Ramsar wetland: Somerset Levels & Moors
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Meare Lake Village is the site of an Iron Age settlement on the Somerset Levels at Meare, Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
Description
In prehistoric times there were two villages situated within the now-drained Meare Pool, occupied at different times between 300 BC and 100 AD, similar to the nearby Glastonbury Lake Village. Investigation of the Meare Pool indicates that it was formed by the encroachment of raised peat bogs around it, particularly during the Subatlantic climatic period (1st millennium BC), and core sampling demonstrates that it is filled with at least 2 m of detritus mud. The pool at that time was at least 2 mi long by 1 mi wide. The villages were built on a morass on an artificial foundation of timber filled with brushwood, bracken, rubble and clay. The two villages, east and west, within Meare Pool…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 51.1760, -2.7955
- District
- Somerset
- Parish
- Meare
- Postcode
- BA6 9TG
- Parliamentary constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills
Sources
- wikidata: Q6804126 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Meare Lake Village (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Meare Lake Villages?
- Meare Lake Villages is in South-West England, United Kingdom (postcode BA6 9TG), in the parish of Meare.
- Who owns Meare Lake Villages?
- Meare Lake Villages is owned by | designation1 =Scheduled Ancient Monument.
- Is Meare Lake Villages a listed building?
- Meare Lake Villages is officially recognised as scheduled monument listed.
- Is Meare Lake Villages a protected site?
- Yes — Meare Lake Villages is part of the SOMERSET WETLANDS National Nature Reserve and the Severn Estuary Ramsar wetland.
- Is Meare Lake Villages free to visit?
- Yes, Meare Lake Villages is free to enter.
- How do I get to Meare Lake Villages?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode BA6 9TG. It sits within the Wells and Mendip Hills parliamentary constituency.