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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 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.
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.
Croscombe is a village and civil parish 2 miles (3 km) west of Shepton Mallet and 4 miles (6 km) from Wells, in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. It is situated on the A371 road in the valley of the River Sheppey. Croscombe has a village hall, a shop, a public house, a Church, a chapel and a school.
Batcombe is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated in the steep valley of the River Alham 5 miles (8 km) south-east of Shepton Mallet and 26 miles (42 km) south of Bristol. The parish has a population of 439. [ 1 ]
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.
Oakhill is a village in the Mendip district of Somerset, England, in Ashwick parish approximately 2.5 miles (4 km) north of Shepton Mallet.It lies between the A37 and the A367 (which is part of the ancient Fosse Way).
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