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Chewton Mendip maps
Historic maps of Chewton Mendip and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Chewton Mendip maps
Chewton Mendip photos
We have no photos of Chewton Mendip, although we do have photos of these nearby places:
Litton| East Harptree| Farrington Gurney| West Harptree| Stratton-On-The-Fosse| Priddy| Compton Martin| Bishop Sutton| Midsomer Norton| Wookey Hole| Dinder| Wells| Croscombe| Holcombe| Stoke St Michael| Radstock| Shepton Mallet| Westbury Sub Mendip| Doulting| Wookey| Blagdon
Chewton Mendip area books
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Memories of Chewton Mendip
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A Country Drive Around Somerset
Having retired and moved to the West Country my wife Elizabeth and I set out to explore the area. Our new home is in Tiverton, Devon, but gradually we explored further and further afield and we remember a lovely drive to Wells and going along Somerset lanes through beautiful villages like East Harptree, Rookham, Chewton Mendip and down towards Taunton on our way home.
Fun!!
I worked in Chewton Mendip in 1968, at Bathway Farm which was a racing stables. It was an amazing job and a wonderful place to work. Every Sunday lunchtime down to the Waldegrave Arms!! 3 of us shared a cottage on Nedge called Swallowsloft, that little house was amazing! Chewton is a beautiful place and I'll never forget my time there.
Avon memories
Hinton Blewett 1945-1946
I first saw Hinton Blewett on a late September day when arriving at my prep school, Colchester House. This was housed in Hinton Blewett Manor, which was its wartime home. Its true home was in Clifton, Bristol but that had been requisitioned during the war so the school was in borrowed accommodation. The headmaster was Mr K A Moresby, a bachelor, but very fond of boys! He liked to have them stripped naked in his study at the beginning and end of term for weighing and measuring. Nevertheless it was a very happy school and I learnt a lot in the year I was there. I remember cycle rides into the nearby country, seeing lots of horse-drawn farm equipment and seeing haymaking the hard way. Pick-up balers did not then exist. I remember the narrow lanes and views of Blagdon Lake.
Regretfully it all came to an end in July 1946 as Mr Moresby couldn't afford to pay for the building in Clifton to be made good and decided to... Read more
FAMILY FROM GURNEY SLADE
My father's family was from Gurney Slade. His father was Alfred and his mother was Helen. Alfred was a gardener at a 'big house' - so I was told - before he moved to South Wales for work in the mining industry. My father, Reginald James, was born in Wales within a very short time of their removal there in November 1908. My father took us on holiday to the west country sometimes, and I remember calling at the post office in Gurney Slade in the mid-50s. My dad asked a postman if anyone in the village was called Hill, and the postman replied, 'too bloody many'!
Great-Grandfather
Gilbert Evans was from Farrington Gurney.
Grandparents And Father
Grandparents lived in Farrington Gurney and my father was born there in 1922.
Grandfather was Rees West-Gaul, father Geoffrey West-Gaul, does anyone know the family?
Moon Family
Although I do not know West Harptree very well, my great-grandmother and great-grandfather are buried here, and there is a memorial to my grandfather William Moon in the church, he died in 1915 in India while in the army. If anyone knows about either the Moon or Bendle families I would love to hear from you.
