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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. It had an estimated population of 10,810 in 2019. [1] Mendip District Council was based there.
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.
The A371 is a primary road in England running from Wincanton to Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset, through Shepton Mallet, Croscombe, Wells, Westbury-sub-Mendip, Rodney Stoke, Draycott, Cheddar, Axbridge, Winscombe, Banwell and Weston-super-Mare.
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.
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.
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.
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).
As well as providing employment to Shepton Mallet, the Anglo-Bavarian Brewery also provided the services of its fire brigade to the town (and the wider surrounding area) between 1868 and 1921. The brewery fire brigade were called upon many times, most notably in 1904 for a fire at Shepton Mallet Prison .