Priddy sits high on the Mendip Hills, a limestone plateau with wide views and easy access to classic caving and walking country. The parish is notable for prehistoric features such as the Priddy Circles and Bronze Age barrows, and for the scarred landscape of former lead working now partly reclaimed as the nature reserve at Priddy Mineries.
It remains a small, mainly agricultural community centred on a village green and the medieval St Lawrence's Church; sheep farming and long‑standing fairs still shape local life, while tourism and outdoor recreation - cavers, walkers and visitors to nearby Cheddar Gorge and the cathedral city of Wells - help sustain the local economy.
Postcode districts covering Priddy
Most populated places nearby
- Bristol 12.8 miles
- Newport 24.4 miles
- Bath 15.1 miles
- Weston-super-Mare 12.3 miles
- Kingswood and Fishponds 14.9 miles
- Yeovil 23.4 miles
- Bridgwater 17.5 miles
- Trowbridge 20.7 miles
- Chipping Sodbury 21.6 miles
- Yate 21.2 miles
- Frome 14.8 miles
- Portishead 14.6 miles
Neighbouring places
- Compton Martin Built-up area 2.3 miles
- East Harptree Built-up area 2.7 miles
- Ubley Built-up area 2.7 miles
- Chewton Mendip Parish 2.8 miles
- West Harptree Parish 3.2 miles
- Rodney Stoke Parish 3.3 miles
- Westbury Parish 3.4 miles
- Westbury-sub-Mendip Built-up area 3.4 miles
- Draycott Built-up area 3.6 miles
- Blagdon Built-up area 3.7 miles
- Litton Parish 3.7 miles
- Easton Built-up area 3.8 miles
Example postcodes in Priddy
BA5 3BQ, BA5 3BG, BA5 3BH, BS40 6DQ, BS40 6LG, BA5 3AZ, BA5 3AT, BA5 3AX, BA5 3BP … See all
Transport links
- Bristol Airport 7.3 miles
- Cardiff Airport 29.8 miles
- Mendip Vale Railway Station 9.9 miles
- Yatton Railway Station 10 miles
Hotels near Priddy Ad
- Wookey Hole Hotel 3 3.8 miles
- The Swan Hotel, Wells, Somerset 4 5.1 miles
- The Ancient Gatehouse & Rugantino Restaurant 5 miles
- The White Hart Hotel 2 5.1 miles
- The Crown at Wells, Somerset 5.1 miles
- The Bath Arms Hotel 4 4.3 miles
- Hampton by Hilton Bristol Airport 3 7.5 miles
- The Sheep and Penguin 5.2 miles
- Holiday Inn Bristol Airport 4 5.9 miles
- Beryl 4 4.7 miles
Schools in Priddy
- Priddy Primary School Primary
Local points of interest
- Mendip Hills Hill 1.4 miles
- Mendip Autocross Recreation 4.2 miles
- Cheddar Library Library 4.2 miles
- Kingswood Nature reserve 6.7 miles
- Oaks of Avalon Archaeological site 9 miles
- Chalice Well Gardens 9.5 miles
- Clarks Village Shopping centre 10.8 miles
- Ashton Gate Stadium 11.3 miles
- Bristol Harbour Harbour 11.9 miles
- SS Great Britain Museum 12 miles
- University of Bristol University 12.7 miles
- Clevedon Court Estate 12.8 miles