Chewton Mendip

Chewton Mendip, Somerset

Written in 1791:

Chewton Mendip is additionally stiled Mendip, by reason of its situation under that mountain, and to distinguish it from Chewton-Keynsham, so called from its vicinity to that town. It lies in the great turnpike-road from Bristol to Wells, being fourteen miles and a half distant from the former, and from the latter five, and consists of one street nearly a mile in length. The parish itself is very large in its bounds, extending some ways four, and others six or seven miles. In that part of it which lies on Mendip hills there are many pits, where lead ore and lapis calaminaris have formerly been dug in large quantities; but there are only two mines of the latter now wrought.

From The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset by Rev. Jon Collinson, 1791.

Text reproduced here by kind permission of Archive CD Books.

1794 map extract kindly provided by Richard Loxton, who has been given permission to use it by James, Earl Waldegrave. Lower Street runs to the right of plot 870.

Lower Street picture also kindly provided by Richard Loxton, who received it from Pat Hellard.

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