Mendip

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Mendip
Shown within Somerset
Geography
Status:	Non-metropolitan District
Region:	South West England
Admin. County:	Somerset
Area: - Total	Ranked 51st 739.44 km²
Admin. HQ:	Shepton Mallet
ONS code:	40UB
Demographics
Population: - Total (2006 est.) - Density	Ranked 203rd 108,300 146 / km²
Ethnicity:	98.8% White
Politics
Mendip District Council http://www.mendip.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	David Heath, David Heathcoat-Amory

Mendip is also a shortened name for The Mendip Hills, from which this district takes its name.

Mendip is a local government district of Somerset in England. It covers an area of land ranging from the Mendip Hills through on to the Somerset Levels. The administrative centre of the district is Shepton Mallet.

The district was formed on April 1, 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, by a merger of the municipal boroughs of Glastonbury and Wells, along with Frome, Shepton Mallet, Street urban districts, and Frome Rural District, Shepton Mallet Rural District, Wells Rural District, and part of Axbridge Rural District and part of Clutton Rural District.

The five main settlements in Mendip are:

Frome, Glastonbury and Shepton Mallet are the only towns in the district, as Wells has city status and Street has maintained its status as a village despite a population in excess of 11,000.

Other villages and hamlets include:

Ashwick
Baltonsborough - Batcombe - Beckington - Binegar - Bleadney - Bowlish - Buckland Dinham - Burcott - Butleigh - Butleigh Wootton
Chantry - Charterhouse - Chelynch - Chesterblake - Chewton Mendip - Chilcompton - Coleford - Coxley - Cranmore - Croscombe
Dean - Dinder - Ditcheat - Doulting - Draycott - Dulcote
East Pennard - Easton - Emborough - Evercreech
Farleigh Hungerford - Faulkland
Godney - Great Elm - Green Ore
Henton - Highbury - Holcombe - Hornblotton - Horrington
Kilmersdon
Lamyatt - Leigh-on-Mendip - Leighton - Litton - Lydford-on-Fosse
Maesbury - Meare - Mells
Nettlebridge - North Wootton - Norton St Philip - Nunney
Oakhill - Oldford
Pilton - Polsham - Prestleigh - Priddy - Pylle
Rode - Rodney Stoke
Southway - Standerwick - Ston Easton - Stratton-on-the-Fosse - Stoke St Michael - Stoney Stratton
Thrupe - Trudoxhill
Upton Noble
Vobster
Walton - Wanstrow - Waterlip - West Compton - West Pennard - West Woodlands - Westbury-sub-Mendip - Westcombe - Westhay - Whatley - Wookey - Wookey Hole - Worminster - Wraxall - Witham Friary
Yarley

1 Transport
- 1.1 Major roads
- 1.2 Rail stations
2 External links

[edit] Transport

[edit] Major roads

[edit] Rail stations

Frome railway station (Heart of Wessex Line), First Great Western

[edit] External links

Mendip District Council
Mendip at the Open Directory Project

v • d • e Ceremonial county of Somerset

Somerset Portal

Boroughs or districts	Mendip, Sedgemoor, Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, South Somerset, Taunton Deane, West Somerset

Cities and towns	Axbridge, Bath, Bridgwater, Burnham-on-Sea, Chard, Clevedon, Crewkerne, Frome, Glastonbury, Highbridge, Ilminster, Keynsham, Midsomer Norton, Minehead, Nailsea, North Petherton, Portishead, Radstock, Shepton Mallet, South Petherton, Street, Taunton, Watchet, Wellington, Wells, Weston-super-Mare, Wincanton, Wiveliscombe, Yeovil See also: List of civil parishes in Somerset

Rivers	Aller, Avon, Axe, Barle, Brue, Cam Brook, Cary, Chew, Congresbury Yeo, East Lyn, Exe, Frome, Haddeo, Hoar Oak Water, Holford, Horner, Huntspill, Isle, Midford Brook, Parret, Severn Estuary, Sheppey, Somer, Tone, Washford, Wellow Brook, West Lyn

Topics	Culture of Somerset, Economy of Somerset, Geology of Somerset, History of Somerset Geographic areas: Blackdown Hills, Brendon Hills, Chew Valley, Exmoor, Mendip Hills, Polden Hills, Quantock Hills, Somerset Levels