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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.
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.
English: The the tiled roof of the Shambles is supported by curved oak rafters and beams. An oak bench, one meter high, stands beneath the roof. An oak bench, one meter high, stands beneath the roof. Local cobblestones are cemented into the ground.
Shambles is an obsolete term for an open-air slaughterhouse and meat market. Shambles or The Shambles may also refer to: The Shambles, a historic street in York, England; Shambles, a reconstruction of butcher's market stalls in Shepton Mallet, England; Shambles Square, Manchester, England; Shambles Glacier, Adelaide Island, Antarctica
Shambles in Market Street, Shepton Mallet, viewed from west of the market square. ... File history. Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
"Shambles" is an obsolete term for an open-air slaughterhouse and meat market.Streets of that name were so called from having been the sites on which butchers killed and dressed animals for consumption (One source suggests that the term derives from "Shammel", an Anglo-Saxon word for shelves that stores used to display their wares, [2] while another indicates that by AD 971 "shamble" meant a ...
Shepton Mallet was then a wealthy town on the back of the wool trade so the south range of the house was almost certainly built for a wool merchant. The north was two tenements with two shop units. When Strode died the house was bequeathed to his daughters with the condition that £8 per year (about £1,700 today) be used to finance a ...
The Anglo: The History of the Anglo Bavarian Brewery, Shepton Mallet, 1864-1994. J H Haskins & Son Ltd. ISBN 978-0-9524646-0-0 . ^ "First lager brew house 'at risk': Britain's first lager brewery has been added to English Heritage's endangered properties list." , BBC News , June 30, 2004.