This heritage site includes the historic lead mining area at Charterhouse. It is managed in partnership with the Mendip Hills National Landscape Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The remains of stone-built lead flues can be seen amongst the overgrown evidence of open-cast mining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The site adjoins nature reserves owned by Somerset Wildlife Trust<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visit the Mendip Hills National Landscape<\/a>\u00a0website to find out more about this area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Address: Blackmoor Reserve car park, Velvet Bottom, Charterhouse, Bristol, BS40 7XR<\/p>\n\n\n\n W3W: \/\/\/drilled.pull.ordeals<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The site of the lead works is a Scheduled Monument<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please take care when visiting. The ground is uneven and has many hidden dips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This heritage site includes the historic lead mining area at Charterhouse. It is managed in partnership with the Mendip Hills National Landscape Service. The remains of stone-built lead flues can be seen amongst the overgrown evidence of open-cast mining. The site adjoins nature reserves owned by Somerset Wildlife Trust. Visit the Mendip Hills National Landscape\u00a0website… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":75,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-74","landscapes","type-landscapes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/historic-environment-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/landscapes\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/historic-environment-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/landscapes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/historic-environment-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/landscapes"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/historic-environment-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/historic-environment-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/historic-environment-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/landscapes\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/historic-environment-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/landscapes\/74\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/historic-environment-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/historic-environment-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Visitor information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n