Chew Valley is a river valley in north Somerset, England, named for the River Chew, which rises at Chewton Mendip and joins the River Avon at Keynsham. In the 1950s the river was dammed to create Chew Valley Lake, which supplies drinking water to Bristol and is internationally recognized for its nature conservation value. The valley covers about 182 square miles of largely arable and dairy farmland dotted with a dozen villages home to roughly 5,000 people, with part of the area falling within the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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