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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 91. Chapters: Cheddar Gorge, List of civil parishes in Somerset, Somerset Levels, Bath and North East Somerset, Mendip Hills, South West Coast Path, Severn Barrage, Exmoor, North Somerset, Geology of Somerset, Chew Valley, King's Sedgemoor Drain, Bridgwater Bay, Bristol Channel, List of places in Somerset, Bath Stone, Blagdon Lake, Meare Pool, Solsbury Hill, River Barle, Brean Down, Brue Valley Living Landscape, Burledge Hill, Burrow Mump, Cheddar Reservoir, Westhay Moor, Porlock Bay, East Dundry, Wimbleball Lake, Nettlecombe Court, Otterhead Lakes, National Nature Reserves in Somerset, Hinkley Point, Sand Bay, Barle Valley, Shapwick Heath, Blackmore Vale, Southlake Moor, Hawkridge Reservoir, Curry and Hay Moors, Shapwick Moor, Chard Reservoir, Luxhay Reservoir, Barrow Gurney Reservoirs, Ham Wall, Aller and Beer Woods, Knowle Hill, Babcary Meadows, Langford Heathfield, Sutton Bingham Reservoir, Ruttersleigh, Tealham and Tadham Moors, Longleat Woods, Barrington Hill Meadows, South Exmoor, Exmoor Coastal Heaths, Moorlinch SSSI, Thurlbear Wood and Quarrylands, Asham Wood, Hunter's Hole, West Sedgemoor, Great Breach and Copley Woods, Walton and Ivythorn Hills, Black Down and Sampford Commons, Selwood Forest, Wet Moor, Street Heath, Twinhills Woods and Meadows, Whitevine Meadows, Sparkford Wood, Westhay Heath, North Exmoor, Fivehead Woods and Meadow, Deadman SSSI, Somerset, Long Lye, Chew Magna Reservoir, West Moor SSSI, Ashford Reservoir, Quantock Greenway, Lord's Wood, Pensford, East Polden Grasslands, Shute Shelve Cavern, Langmead and Weston Level, Aller Hill, Millwater, Long Lye Meadow, Sharpham Moor Plot, Prior's Park & Adcombe Wood, Southey and Gotleigh Moors, Lulsgate Plateau, Fivehead Arable Fields, Dunster Park and Heathlands, Holme Moor & Clean Moor, North Curry Meadow, Ringdown SSSI, Somerset, Stowell Meadow, North Brewham Meadows, Woolhayes Farm, Bristol Reservoirs, Cleeve Hill SSSI, Somerset, Roebuck Meadows, Hawkcombe Woods, Kingweston Meadows, Lang's Farm, Freshmoor, Grove Farm, Somerset. Excerpt: Connection Timeout The Somerset Levels, or the Somerset Levels and Moors as they are less commonly but more correctly known, is a sparsely populated coastal plain and wetland area of central Somerset, South West England, between the Quantock and Mendip Hills. The Levels occupy an area of about 160,000 acres (650 km), corresponding broadly to the administrative district of Sedgemoor but also including the south-eastern part of the Mendip district. The Somerset Levels are bisected by the Polden Hills; the areas to the south are drained by the River Parrett, and the areas to the North by the rivers Axe and Brue. The Mendip Hills separate the Somerset Levels from the North Somerset Levels. The Somerset Levels consist of marine clay "levels" along the coast, and inland (often peat-based) "moors"; agriculturally, about 70 percent is used as grassland and the rest is arable. Willow and teazel are grown commercially and peat is extracted. One explanation for the county of Somerset's name is that, in prehistory, because of winter flooding humans restricted their use of the Levels to the summer, leading to a derivation from Sumorsaete, meaning land of the summer people. A Palaeolithic flint tool found in West Sedgemoor is the earliest indication of human presence in the area. The Neolithic people exploited the reedswamps for their natural resources and started to construct wooden trackways, including the world's oldes.
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