Lopen

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Lopen
Lopen shown within Somerset
Population	248^[1]
OS grid reference	ST425145
District	South Somerset
Shire county	Somerset
Region	South West
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	YEOVIL
Postcode district	TA13
Dialling code	01935
Police	Avon and Somerset
Fire	Devon and Somerset
Ambulance	South Western
European Parliament	South West England
UK Parliament	Yeovil
List of places: UK • England • Somerset

Coordinates: 50°55′37″N 2°49′10″W / 50.927, -2.8195

Lopen is a village and civil parish in the English county of Somerset, situated eight miles west of Yeovil in the South Somerset district.

The village has a population of 248^[2]. It is listed in the Domesday Book.

The Parish of Lopen is bounded to the north by the A303 Trunk Road and to the south by Lopen Brook with the road from South Petherton to Merriott, Crewkerne and the South Coast running through the middle.

The only retail outlets in the parish are the pub and an organic food shop at Lopen Head, but although they are in the parish they are not really in the village itself which is located half a mile to the south. Furthermore the road from Lopenhead to Lopen descends steeply through a deep and twisty cutting with no pedestrian pavement, consequently these outlets cannot safely be reached on foot from the village.

Between Lopenhead and Lopen the road crosses the ancient Roman Fosse Way, which at this point is just a minor country lane. A spectacular Roman mosaic, probably from a Roman villa, was found in the village in 2001.