Our verdict
Wells' own mini-Mendip, ten minutes from the cathedral green. The grassland is the star — limestone flowers in June, butterflies all summer — and the view of cathedral-against-Levels is the postcard nobody takes.
The scrubby, orchid-flecked limestone knoll rising from Wells' northern edge towards Ebbor Gorge and the Mendip scarp, with the cathedral below and the Levels shining beyond.
A wooded limestone hill on the edge of Wells, open access on foot.