wookey

Updated: June 23, 2025

The most remarkable deposit of these bones is in the Wookey Hole, on the southern edge of the Mendips, about two miles from Wells. At the head of a short and picturesque glen, beneath an ivy-festooned cliff, is a cavern whence the river Axe issues and flows down the glen.

Joel Cook - England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel