Our verdict
A wood with a past. The archaeology beats the walking — an easy hour of ambling past barrows and a standing stone — and in spring the bluebells alone justify the trip.
Beech and Scots pine along the eastern summit ridge of the Mendips, scattered with Bronze Age burial mounds, old quarry pits, a Roman road and a lone standing stone. Bluebells wash through the lower slopes in spring.
17 hectares of Woodland Trust beech and pine, free to roam dawn to dusk. The barrows and earthworks are ancient monuments — walk them, don't dig them.