The Mendip area provides opportunities for a wide range of outdoor scouting activities

These include, walking, trail biking, rock climbing and caving. There are also forests, areas of industrial heritage and places of historical interest that are suitable for visiting Cub packs.

The Mendip hills lie south of Bristol and for the last 1,000 years sheep have grazed this high, craggy limestone plateau. It is now protected as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Somerset level lying south of the hills, by contrast, are flat, lush water meadows reclaimed from the sea with a network of rhynes (ditches).

The Mendip Scout base in situated in Wedmore, which lies about eight miles northwest of Wells and four miles south of Cheddar, while to the west is the M5 motorway and the towns of Highbridge with Burnham on Sea.

Wedmore is a large village and parish. Built from ancient times on rising ground alongside what was a large expanse of moorland. This watery marshland extended so much that the upland Wedmore stands upon, was in later Roman times, an inland island of considerable size, containing several villages and hamlets. This former island is still referred to, even today, as the ‘Isle of Wedmore.’