Mendip

Mendip is also a shortened name for The Mendip Hills, from which this district takes its name.

Mendip is a local government district of Somerset in England. It covers an area of land ranging from the Mendip Hills through on to the Somerset Levels. The administrative centre of the district is Shepton Mallet.

The district was formed on April 1, 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, by a merger of the municipal boroughs of Glastonbury and Wells, along with Frome, Shepton Mallet, Street urban districts, and Frome Rural District, Shepton Mallet Rural District, Wells Rural District, and part of Axbridge Rural District and part of Clutton Rural District.

Settlements

The five main settlements in Mendip are:

• Frome
• Glastonbury
• Shepton Mallet
• Street
• Wells

Frome, Glastonbury and Shepton Mallet are the only towns in the district, as Wells has city status and Street has maintained its status as a village despite a population in excess of 11,000.

Other villages and hamlets include:

• Ashwick
• Baltonsborough - Batcombe - Beckington - Binegar - Bleadney - Bowlish - Buckland Dinham - Burcott - Butleigh - Butleigh Wootton
• Chantry - Charterhouse - Chelynch - Chesterblake - Chewton Mendip - Chilcompton - Coleford - Coxley - Cranmore - Croscombe
• Dean - Dinder - Ditcheat - Doulting - Draycott - Dulcote
• East Pennard - Easton - Emborough - Evercreech
• Farleigh Hungerford - Faulkland
• Godney - Great Elm - Green Ore
• Henton - Highbury - Holcombe - Hornblotton - Horrington
• Kilmersdon
• Lamyatt - Leigh-on-Mendip - Leighton - Litton - Lydford-on-Fosse
• Maesbury - Meare - Mells
• Nettlebridge - North Wootton - Norton St Philip - Nunney
• Oakhill - Oldford
• Pilton - Polsham - Prestleigh - Priddy - Pylle
• Rode - Rodney Stoke
• Southway - Standerwick - Ston Easton - Stratton-on-the-Fosse - Stoke St Michael - Stoney Stratton
• Thrupe - Trudoxhill
• Upton Noble
• Vobster
• Walton - Wanstrow - Waterlip - West Compton - West Pennard - West Woodlands - Westbury-sub-Mendip - Westcombe - Westhay - Whatley - Wookey - Wookey Hole - Worminster - Wraxall - Witham Friary
• Yarley

Transport

Major roads

• A37
• A361
• A371
• A39

Rail stations

• Frome railway station (Heart of Wessex Line), First Great Western

External links

• Mendip District Council