Editing Cheddar, Somerset (section)

== Transport ==
[[File:Cheddar First 46253.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|A [[First West of England|First Somerset & Avon]] bus picks up passengers at the Market cross on service 126 from Weston-super-Mare to Wells, the principal bus service through Cheddar.]]
The village is situated on the [[A371 road]] which runs from [[Wincanton]], to [[Weston-super-Mare]].<ref>{{cite web|title=A371|url=http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=A371|publisher=SABRE|access-date=4 March 2011}}</ref> It is approximately {{convert|5|mi|km}} from the route of the [[M5 motorway]] with around a {{convert|10|mi|km}} drive to junction 22.<ref name="OS182">{{cite map |publisher=Ordnance Survey |title=182 Weston-super-Mare, Bridgwater and Wells |url=http://leisure.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/products/paper-maps/paper-maps-ordnance-survey-great-britain/paper-maps-ordnance-survey-great-britain-os-landranger-map/weston-super-mare/pid-9780319228609 |edition=C2 |year=2002 |scale=1:50000 |series=Landranger |access-date=24 February 2011 |isbn=0-319-22782-0 |archive-date=10 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110210142633/http://leisure.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/products/paper-maps/paper-maps-ordnance-survey-great-britain/paper-maps-ordnance-survey-great-britain-os-landranger-map/weston-super-mare/pid-9780319228609 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

It was on the [[Cheddar Valley line]], a railway line that was opened in 1869 and closed in 1963. It became known as The Strawberry Line because of the large volume of locally-grown [[Strawberry|strawberries]] that it carried. It ran from [[Yatton railway station]] through {{stnlnk|Cheddar}} to [[Wells (Tucker Street) railway station]] and joined the [[East Somerset Railway]] to make a through route via [[Shepton Mallet (High Street) railway station]] to [[Witham (Somerset) railway station|Witham]]. Sections of the now-disused railway have been opened as the Strawberry Line Trail, which currently runs from Yatton to Cheddar. The Cheddar Valley line survived until the "[[Beeching Axe]]". Towards the end of its life there were so few passengers that diesel [[railcar]]s were sometimes used. The Cheddar branch closed to passengers on 9 September 1963 and to goods in 1964.<ref name="daniels"/> The line closed in the 1960s, when it became part of the Cheddar Valley Railway Nature Reserve,<ref name="Strawberry Line"/> and part of the [[National Cycle Network]] route&nbsp;26. The cycle route also intersects with the West [[Mendip Way]] and various other footpaths.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.movingsomersetforward.co.uk/files/uploads/maps/CheddarWEB.pdf|title=Cycling Map 10 Cheddar and Axbridge|publisher=Moving Somerset Forward|access-date=30 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305105155/http://www.movingsomersetforward.co.uk/files/uploads/maps/CheddarWEB.pdf|archive-date=5 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The principal bus route is the hourly service 126 between [[Weston-super-Mare]] and [[Wells, Somerset|Wells]] operated by [[First West of England]]. Other bus routes include the service 668 from [[Shipham]] to [[Street, Somerset|Street]] which runs every couple of hours operated by Libra Travel, as well as the college bus service 66 which runs from [[Axbridge]] to the Bridgwater Campus of [[Bridgwater and Taunton College]] in the mornings and evenings of college term times, and is operated by [[Bakers Dolphin]].