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Shepton Mallet is a market town and civil parish in Somerset, England, some 16 miles (26 kilometres) southwest of Bath, 18 miles (29 kilometres) south of Bristol and five miles (eight point zero kilometres) east of Wells.
HMP Shepton Mallet, sometimes known as Cornhill, is a former prison in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England. When it closed in 2013, it had been the United Kingdom's oldest operating prison, following the closure of HMP Lancaster Castle in 2011. [1] Before closure, Shepton Mallet was a category C lifer prison holding 189 prisoners.
The Church of St Peter and St Paul in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. [1] There is evidence of a church on the site from before the Norman Conquest of 1066, and the font may date from that time. The only other remains are the walls around the chancel arch. [2]
The Shambles (/ ʃ ˈ æ m b əl z / ⓘ) is a Grade II listed monument located in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England. It is a twentieth-century reconstruction of butcher's market stalls that once lined the market place at Shepton Mallet. These stalls came to be known as "shambles", a term derived from the Middle English: fleshammels, lit.
Kilver Court. Kilver Court is a historic house and gardens in Shepton Mallet in the English county of Somerset.The River Sheppey powered textile mills and it later became a factory, the headquarters of the Showerings brewing business (later part of Allied Domecq), and then the headquarters of a leather-goods manufacturer, Mulberry.
A town which will soon be "blanketed" in snowdrops is set to be showcased on BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time. More than half a million snowdrop bulbs have been planted for Shepton Mallet ...
Colonel William Strode, Jr (11 January 1589, Shepton Mallet, Somerset – 20 December 1666, Barrington Court, Somerset) — called William Strode of Barrington to distinguish him from contemporaries of the same name, [1] principally the Strodes of Newnham in Devon — was an English Parliamentarian officer and Member of Parliament (Ilchester; 1640, 1646–48).
More than 200 gymnasts train inside Shepton Prison, which is closing as a tourist attraction.