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    coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Mendip was a local government district of Somerset in England. The district covered a largely rural area of 285 square...
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    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...
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    Chewton Mendip is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is situated 4 miles (6 km) north of Wells, 16 miles (26 km) south of Bath and Bristol...
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    Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (category People from Mendip District)
    Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 – 27 May 1541), was the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (a...
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    Witham Friary (category Villages in Mendip District)
    non-metropolitan district of Mendip, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Frome Rural District. It...
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    Shepton Mallet (category Towns in Mendip District)
    It had an estimated population of 10,810 in 2019. Mendip District Council was based there. The Mendip Hills lie to the north and the River Sheppey runs...
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    Wells, Somerset (category Towns in Mendip District)
    city and civil parish in Somerset, located on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, 21 miles (34 km) south-east of Weston-super-Mare, 22 mi (35 km) south-west...
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  • Mendip may refer to: Mendip District, a former local government district of Somerset, England Mendip Hills, a group of hills in Somerset, England Mendip...
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    Pilton, Somerset (category Villages in Mendip District)
    civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the A361 road in the Mendip district, 3 miles (5 km) south-west of Shepton Mallet and 6 miles (10 km) east...
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    The Mendip transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility on the summit of Pen Hill, part of the Mendip Hills range in Somerset...
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    non-metropolitan district of Mendip, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Frome Rural District. It...
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    Glastonbury Tor (category Grade I listed buildings in Mendip District)
    Glastonbury Tor is a tor near Glastonbury in the English county of Somerset, topped by the roofless St Michael's Tower, a Grade I listed building. The...
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    1066. The parish of Batcombe was part of the Whitstone Hundred. The Mendip district was, for several centuries, highly dependent on the wool industry,...
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    Mendip Hospital opened in 1848 as the Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Horrington, near Wells, in the English county of Somerset. As a county...
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    Chalice Well (category Grade I listed buildings in Mendip District)
    The Chalice Well, also known as the Red Spring, is a well situated near the summit of Chalice Hill, a small hill next to Glastonbury Tor in Glastonbury...
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    Jacob Rees-Mogg (category People from Mendip District)
    Retrieved 17 September 2021. "October 2015". Midsomer Norton, Radstock & District Journal. 30 September 2015. Archived from the original on 9 September 2017...
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    following (as they existed on 1 December 2020): The District of Mendip wards of: Chewton Mendip and Ston Easton; Croscombe and Pilton; Moor; Rodney and...
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    Orchardleigh Estate (category Grade II listed buildings in Mendip District)
    Orchardleigh (also spelled Orchardlea) is a country estate in Somerset, approximately two miles north of Frome, and on the southern edge of the village...
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    James Lance (category People from Mendip District)
    was born in Southampton on 29 September 1975 and grew up in Westbury-sub-Mendip, Somerset. He attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School. Lance's appearances...
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    Annunziata Rees-Mogg (category People from Mendip District)
    Annunziata Mary Rees-Mogg (/əˌnʊntsiˈɑːtə/; born 25 March 1979) is a British freelance journalist whose focus is finance, economics, and European politics...
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    Wookey Hole (category Villages in Mendip District)
    one mile north-west of the city of Wells, and lies on the border of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). One possible origin for...
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  • Shropshire, a location Charlton, Kilmersdon, Mendip district, Somerset Charlton, Shepton Mallet, Mendip district, Somerset Charlton, Taunton Deane, Somerset...
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    Andrew Miller (novelist) (category People from Mendip District)
    Andrew Brooke Miller FRSL (born 29 April 1960) is an English novelist. Miller was born in Bristol. He grew up in the West Country and has lived in Spain...
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  • 1973 Mendip District Council election 1976 Mendip District Council election 1979 Mendip District Council election (New ward boundaries) 1983 Mendip District...
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    Glastonbury Abbey (category Grade I listed buildings in Mendip District)
    Retrieved 29 August 2011. "Conservation Area Appraisal Glastonbury" (PDF). Mendip District Council. p. 43. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 March 2012....
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  • Matt Martin (born January 30, 1971) is a British politician and Mendip District Councillor representing Moor ward. He is a member of the UK Liberal Democrat...
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    Vicars' Close, Wells (category Grade I listed buildings in Mendip District)
    Vicars' Close, in Wells, Somerset, England, is claimed to be Europe's oldest purely residential street with original buildings intact. John Julius Norwich...
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    incorporation of the town of Frome and surrounding rural areas in the former Mendip District into the newly created constituency of Frome and East Somerset, and...
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    Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (category People from Mendip District)
    Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (12 December 1724 – 27 January 1816) was an admiral in the Royal Navy. As a junior officer he saw action during the War...
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    Anthony Powell (category People from Mendip District)
    Anthony Dymoke Powell CH CBE (/ˈpoʊəl/ POH-əl; 21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his 12-volume work A Dance to the...
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