North East Somerset

Somerset Towns and Villages

Chewton Mendip

BA3, Chewton Mendip

Description

Chewton Mendip is a village and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. It is situated 4 miles north of Wells, 16 miles south of Bristol on the Mendip Hills and is the source of the River Chew. The parish includes the hamlets of Bathway and Green Ore.

Chewton Mendip

Image thanks to Paul Ashton Emery 

There were several lead mines and stone quarries in the parish. It is also the site of Attborough Swallet (also known as Red Quar Swallet), a cave which is unusual for a cave on the Mendip Hills in that it is not in limestone but instead in Dolomitic Conglomerateand Marl. The cave was first entered in 1992.

 

There is a long barrow to the north of the village 100 ft (30 m) by 50 ft (15 m). Excavation in 1946 revealed six Bronze Age barrows below the crest of the Mendips. The shape of some of the existing fields suggest they are of medieval origin.

The parish was part of the hundred of Chewton.

On 12 June 1643 the village was the site of a skirmish in the English Civil War, between Royalist forces led by Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon and the parliamentary forces under William Waller including the cavalry unit of Sir Arthur Haselrig known as Haselrig's lobsters.

 


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Chewton Mendip
Chewton Mendip
Somerset
BA3
United Kingdom



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