Leigh-on-Mendip
Leigh-on-Mendip or Leigh upon Mendip is a small village on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. It lies roughly equidistant from Frome, Radstock and Shepton Mallet at about 5 miles from each town.Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 561 residents
- Description: village in Somerset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Leigh”, “Leigh upon Mendip”, and “Leigh upon Mendip, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Bell Inn and Church of All Saints, Downhead.
Church of All Saints, Downhead
Church
Photo: Patrick Mackie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Anglican Church Of All Saints in Downhead, within the English county of Somerset, dates from the 14th century. It is a Grade II* listed building. The tower was built in the 14th and the church has an 18th-century nave and chancel.
Halecombe
Quarry
Halecombe is a limestone quarry near Leigh-on-Mendip on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. The quarry exhibits pale to dark grey well-bedded Carboniferous Limestone, about 350-320 million years old, dipping steeply and consistently northwards and numerous "fist-sized" calcite inclusions within the limestones both solid and hollow with internal calcite crystal growth.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nunney and Kilmersdon.
Nunney
Village
Photo: Nabokov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nunney is a village and civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It is located 3 miles south-west of Frome and the parish includes the hamlet of Holwell. Nunney is situated 3 miles east of Leigh-on-Mendip.
Kilmersdon
Village
Photo: Maurice Pullin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kilmersdon is a village and civil parish on the north eastern slopes of the Mendip Hills in Somerset between the towns of Radstock and Frome. It is located on the B3139 between Wells and Trowbridge in Wiltshire. Kilmersdon is situated 3 miles north of Leigh-on-Mendip.
Ashwick
Hamlet
Photo: Lyn Yates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ashwick is a village in Somerset, England, about three miles north of Shepton Mallet and seven miles east from Wells. It has also been a civil parish since 1826. Ashwick is situated 3½ miles west of Leigh-on-Mendip.
Leigh-on-Mendip
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Leigh-on-Mendip, Mendip District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.22406° or 51° 13′ 27″ northLongitude
-2.44461° or 2° 26′ 41″ westPopulation
561Elevation
610 feet (186 metres)Open location code
9C3V6HF4+J5OpenStreetMap ID
node 66729235OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2644650Wikidata ID
Q2146882
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Leigh-on-Mendip” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Leigh-on-Mendip”
- Chinese: “Leigh-on-Mendip”
- Dutch: “Leigh upon Mendip”
- Dutch: “Leigh-on-Mendip”
- French: “Leigh upon Mendip”
- French: “Leigh-on-Mendip”
- Irish: “Leigh upon Mendip”
- Japanese: “リー＝オン＝メンディップ”
- Ladin: “Leigh upon Mendip”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Leigh-on-Mendip”
- Polish: “Leigh upon Mendip”
- Swedish: “Leigh-on-Mendip”
- Turkish: “Leigh-on-Mendip”
- Urdu: “لے-آن-مینڈپ”
- “Leigh upon Mendip”
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