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The Mendip district covers a largely rural area of 285 square miles (738 km 2) [1] ranging from the Mendip Hills through on to the Somerset Levels. It has a population of approximately 110,000. [1] The administrative centre of the district is Shepton Mallet but the largest town (with more than twice the population of Shepton Mallet) is Frome ...
Mendip district shown within Somerset Mendip is a local government district in the English county of Somerset. The Mendip district covers a largely rural area of 285 square miles (738 km 2) ranging from the Mendip Hills through on to the Somerset Levels. It had a population of approximately 110,000 in 2014. The administrative centre of the district is Shepton Mallet. In the United Kingdom, the ...
Charterhouse, also known as Charterhouse-on-Mendip, is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Priddy, in the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in the Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England.
The 1933-built [1] semi-detached property, which belonged to John Lennon's aunt Mimi and her husband George Smith, is in Woolton, south Liverpool.Lennon moved there in July 1946 at the age of five from 9 Newcastle Road in the nearby suburb of Wavertree.
A toboggan is a simple sled traditionally used by children. It is also a traditional form of transport used by the Innu and Cree of northern Canada. Illustration of a toboggan. In modern times, it is used on snow to carry one or more people (often children) down a hill or other slope for recreation.
Later that year John Gielgud took the play on a provincial tour followed by a successful London run at the Globe (now Gielgud) Theatre. [4] Gielgud took the play to the United States, where it opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre on 8 November 1950, [5] with Pamela Brown as the female lead. Richard Burton and Claire Bloom had parts in the ...
The centre of Somerset is dominated by the Levels, a coastal plain and wetland. The north-east contains part of the Cotswolds uplands and all of the Mendip Hills, which are both national landscapes; the west contains the Quantock Hills and part of the Blackdown Hills, which are also national landscapes, and most of Exmoor, a national park.
The Mendip Hills (commonly called the Mendips) is a range of limestone hills to the south of Bristol and Bath in Somerset, England.Running from Weston-super-Mare and the Bristol Channel in the west to the Frome valley in the east, the hills overlook the Somerset Levels to the south and the Chew Valley and other tributaries of the Avon to the north. [1]