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The Sheppey has been used in the past to power local industry, for example corn and textile mills in the Shepton Mallet area. [6] There may have been more than thirty mills powered by the river and its tributaries in the area of Shepton Mallet, Bowlish and Darshill, although fewer than this number of sites have been positively identified. [5]
Shepton Mallet is in the unitary authority area of Somerset Council. Prior to April 2023, it was the principal town in the Mendip local government district, which governed together with Somerset County Council. In the 80 years up to 1974, it lay in Shepton Mallet Urban District. [53] The civil parish of Shepton Mallet has adopted the style of a ...
The district is primarily a residential area north of the central business district. It includes the steep loess bluff where President Abraham Lincoln stood to survey the area when he was deciding on the eastern terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad. [2] The Daughters of the American Revolution erected a monument at the location in 1911.
Mendip was a local government district of Somerset in England. The district covered a largely rural area of 285 square miles (738 km 2) [3] with a population of approximately 112,500, [3] ranging from the Wiltshire border in the east to part of the Somerset Levels in the west.
De Smet produced the first European-recorded, detailed map of the Council Bluffs area; it detailed the Missouri River valley system, from below the Platte River to the Big Sioux River. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Pierre-Jean De Smet 's map of the Council Bluffs area, 1839The area labeled Caldwell's Camp was a Potawatomi village led by Sauganash , near the ...
The district is primarily a residential area that is adjacent to the central business district to the west. Part of the district is in Jackson's Addition, which is the first addition to the original town of Council Bluffs. [2] It also sits along the base of the loess bluffs to the east. The neighborhood generally developed between 1855 and 1930.
Council Bluffs was founded in the late 1840s as Kanesville by Mormons. When Brigham Young called all people of the faith outside of Utah to Salt Lake City in 1852, the community ceased to be majority Mormon. It was renamed Council Bluffs in 1853. The buildings here are among the earliest extant commercial buildings in the city. [2]
In the Domesday Book of 1086, Ditcheat belonged to Glastonbury Abbey and contained 36 families. [2] The parish of Ditcheat was part of the Whitstone Hundred. [3]Nearby main roads are the A37, 1.5 miles (2 km) west of the village, connecting Bristol and Yeovil, and the A371, 1 mile (2 km) east, connecting Shepton Mallet and Wincanton.