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In the News (Thu 21 Aug 08)

  
  Mendip District Council
Councillors (often referred to as "members") are elected every four years to represent all the residents of Mendip.
A £116,000 revamp of one of Mendip’s community gems will be officially unveiled to the public this week.
The government’s decision not to allow the creation of a single unitary authority in Somerset will not be challenged, leaders and chief executives of the county and district councils have agreed.
rd.business.com /index.asp?epm=s.1&bdcq=Mendips&bdcr=1&bdcu=http://www.mendip.gov.uk/&bdcp=&partner=2662601&bdcs=nwuuid-2662601-09E1E897-2CC4-1B9C-3601-ABAD653326E7-ym   (318 words)

  
 Self-catering holiday cottage near Wells Somerset, the Dairy
Between Wells and Cheddar, in a beautiful conservation village, surrounded by magnificent Mendip walks.
Hidden away up a quiet lane, behind high stone walls, you'll find a 300 year old stone cottage.
The village follows a stream, down from the hills through a small rocky gorge, where old stone houses and walls seem to grow out of the boulders.
www.holiday-cottage-mendips-somerset.co.uk   (823 words)

  
  Mendips & 20 Forthlin Road [Beatles] - The Official Tourist Information Website for Liverpool and Merseyside   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Mendips and 20 Forthlin Road is a joint tour of the 1950's terraced house which were the childhood homes of John Lennon and Paul McCartney and where the Beatles met, rehearsed and wrote many of their earliest songs.
Mendips is where John Lennon lived with his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George and composed early songs in the front porch and in his bedroom.
The house was bought by Yoko Ono Lennon in 2002 and was immediately donated by her to the Trust.
www.visitliverpool.com /site/mendips-and-20-forthlin-road-beatles-p8219   (231 words)

  
  Enjoy a Taste of the Mendips
This is the third Mendip Food and Drink Festival, celebrating the array of food and drink grown, produced and served in the area.
Mendip District Council chairman Bill MacKay, who sits on the food festival committee, said: "I am delighted that this year the festival is bigger and better than ever.
Mendip Buffalo at West Cranmore is offering farm, dairy and cheese-making tours throughout the festival, plus a chance to sample and buy the farm's produce.
www.mendip.gov.uk /NewsArticle.asp?id=SX9452-A7818D30   (875 words)

  
  Mendip Hills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mendip Hills are a range of limestone hills (karst) situated to the south of Bristol and Bath in north Somerset, England.
Mendip or Sedgemoor and Somerset County Council or unitary authorities e.g.
The Mendip Hills is home to the Mendip UHF television transmitter installed in the 1960s, the tallest mast in the region situated on Pen Hill near Wells.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mendip_Hills   (2181 words)

  
 Mendip - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mendip   (91 words)

  
 Mendips - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mendip Hills, an area of Somerset, England (commonly called "the Mendips")
Chewton Mendip, a village in the Mendip Hills
Baron Mendip, a short lived title of the Peerage of Great Britain
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mendips   (111 words)

  
 College teenager leaves his mark on the Mendips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The finger post Jack created was a restoration project and followed regular visits he made to the Mendips with fellow FES and environmental conservation students.
While on the Mendips, they work under the direction of senior warden Les Davies, who received the MBE last year in recognition of his work.
The Mendips are classified as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and students undertake practical tasks such as path and fence maintenance work as part of the ongoing conservation efforts.
www.nortcoll.ac.uk /News/tabid/58/newsid/19/mid/385/College-teenager-leaves-his-mark-on-the-Mendips/Default.aspx   (259 words)

  
 Natural England - Special Sites
The Mendips are formed in blocks of folded Carboniferous Limestone, and represent the remnants of a much higher range of hills that existed hundreds of millions years ago.
In the Mendips, the distinction between the rough grassland and heathland vegetation of the sandstone outcrops and the vegetation of the surrounding Carboniferous Limestone plateau is readily apparent.
Throughout the Mendips, on slopes the Carboniferous Limestone gives rise to thin calcareous soils, some of which support limestone grassland, but deeper soils, particularly on the main plateau surface, have weathered to become acidic in their upper layer and support a rare vegetation type known as limestone heath.
www.english-nature.org.uk /special/geological/sites/area_ID30.asp   (3129 words)

  
 Radstock & The East Mendips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Mendip Hills is one of the most beautiful ranges of hills in the South West of England.
The southern slopes of the Mendips are well known for their cave formations, which include Cheddar Gorge, and The Rock Of Ages.
The economy in this area of Mendip is principally agriculture, with a small amount of industry remaining in the larger towns of Shepton Mallet, Wells, Radstock, and Midsomer Norton.
homepages.tesco.net /~brennig.jones/radstock.htm   (529 words)

  
 Mining in the Mendips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The mines on Mendip are notable in that they were often extensions of existing caving systems or simply intersected natural passageways as they were worked.
J.Rutter, Deliniations of the North Western Division of the County of Somerset and its Antideluvian Bone Caverns (1829) pp.
Barrington, Nicholas ; The Caves of Mendip, 1964, 91pp.
www.mike.munro.cwc.net /mining/mendips/intro.htm   (728 words)

  
 Fighting crime in the Mendips
Mendip looked at five town centres and examined all the technical options available - together with the companies that could supply the equipment needed.
A year on from the initial installation and Mendip District Council is certain that it made the right choice.
On the strength of the results to date, Mendip is now planning a next phase of CCTV installations in their area - using Bewator equipment.
www.bewator.com /uk/applications/bedfordshire_police/fighting_crime_in_the_men   (700 words)

  
 icLiverpool - Beatles job at Mendips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Mendips was opened to the public last year after being donated by the Beatle's widow, Yoko Ono (pictured outside the house).
The trust is now hoping to expand the number of daily minibus trips to Mendips, in Menlove Avenue, and to Sir Paul McCartney's childhood home at 20 Forthlin Road, during the peak tourist season, including the annual Mathew Street Festival.
It says the new custodian must be able to "demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of the Lennon family during the period Mendips was in their ownership".
icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk /0800beatles/0050news/content_objectid=13834396_method=full_siteid=50061_headline=-Beatles%2Djob%2Dat%2DMendips-name_page.html   (321 words)

  
 Grants
The Mendip Hills stretch from the island of Steep Holme and the mainland of Brean Down in the west to the outskirts of Frome in the east.
The Mendip Society believes the challenge is to achieve a balance of interests while protecting the Mendips for future generations.
It is the last standing Mendip lead-smelter chimney, once on the verge of collapse, but restored with grant aid from the Mendip Society.
www.mendipsociety.org.uk /Grants/body_grants.html   (559 words)

  
 Mendips Raceway Hotels: near Bristol Airport - 6.6m
Accommodation close to Mendips Raceway is Lyncombe Lodge Hotel at 1.4 miles, with 14 rooms from £45.00.
The area is famous for strawberries, cheese and the wonderful caves, which are found in the mighty Cheddar Gorge.
Situated prominently on the southern slopes of the Mendip Hills, overlooking the picturesque hamlet of Loxton.
www.uk-hotel-accommodation.co.uk /hotels_near_attractions/Hotels_Mendips_Raceway.cfm   (213 words)

  
 Beatles: Mendips & 20 Forthlin Road Tour - The Official Tourist Information Website for Liverpool and Merseyside
Mendips and 20 Forthlin Road is a joint tour of the 1950's terraced house which were the childhood homes of John Lennon and Paul McCartney and where the Beatles met, rehearsed and wrote many of their earliest songs.
Mendips is where John Lennon lived with his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George and composed early songs in the front porch and in his bedroom.
The house was bought by Yoko Ono Lennon in 2002 and was immediately donated by her to the Trust.
visitliverpool.com /.../mendips-and-20-forthlin-road-beatles-p123211   (164 words)

  
 John Lennon's Childhood Home in Liverpool Opens to the Public
Visitors will be able to enjoy a joint tour of Mendips and the former Liverpool family home of Sir Paul and his brother Michael McCartney, 20, Forthlin Road.
Her wish was that Mendips should be preserved very much as it was when John lived there, presenting the early experiences that helped inspire his musical genius.
Lennon lived at Mendips with his Aunt Mimi from the ages of 5 to 23, when he left home.
www.britainexpress.com /ticker/archives/00000079.htm   (350 words)

  
 Mendips - 251 Menlove Avenue
On the 8th December 2000, marking the 20th anniversary of his death, English Heritage installed a Blue Plaque to commemorate John having lived at Mendips from 1945 to 1963.
Mendips was eventually purchased by Yoko Ono Lennon in 2002 for the sum of £150,000 and she donated the house to the National Trust who have restored it to a 1950s style, and as closely as possible to how it would have looked when John lived there.
Mendips was officially opened to the public on 29th March 2003 and the ceremony was attended by Yoko Ono Lennon who said: "When John's house came up for sale I wanted to preserve it for the people of Liverpool and John Lennon and Beatles fans all over the world."
wooltonvillageuk.tripod.com /Mendips.htm   (200 words)

  
 Landscape and scenery - Mendips : Enjoy England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Mendips' most dramatic landscape is in the centre of the AONB, site of the famous Cheddar Gorge and Wookey Hole Caves.
The Mendips rise to a high, bare plateau around Priddy and Charterhouse, criss-crossed by drystone walls and rich in archaeological remains.
The Mendip plateau is particularly rich in ancient Bronze and Iron Age, Roman and mediaeval field monuments.
www.enjoyengland.com /ideas/inspirational-ideas/nature-and-wildlife/landscape-and-scenery/mendips.aspx   (349 words)

  
 SOMERSETSHIRE - Online Information article about SOMERSETSHIRE
South of the Mendips lies a broad plain watered by the Parrett and the Brue, and known generally as Sedgemoor, but with different names in different parts.
Cheese is made in various parts, notably the famous Cheddar Cheese, which is made in the farms lying south of the Mendips.
Wellington, and lead washing in the Mendips; but these industries, like the working of spathose iron ore among the Brendon hills, are on the wane.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /SIV_SOU/SOMERSETSHIRE.html   (4903 words)

  
 Mysteries of the Mendips and Glastonbury revealed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
During the period the when the Romans were leaving Britain to aid the defence of their homeland, a certain Centurion had no liking for religions or religious people of the area.
Being stationed on the Mendip Hills, probably somewhere near Priddy, he had a good knowledge of the lay-of-the-land and views of the surrounding area.
The saplings recoiled back and threw the boulder in the opposite direction up onto the mendip hills where it struck the ground, already littered with stones, with tremendous force and disintegrated on impact leaving a large hole.
www3.sympatico.ca /mendiplad/mendip/mend-part-1.html   (723 words)

  
 Active Mendip Festival of Outdoor Adventure — May 12th & 13th 2007   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The first Active Mendip Festival provides an outstanding opportunity to discover the range of outdoor adventure and activities available in the beautiful and wild Mendip Hills.
Active Mendip are committed to utilising the Mendips in a sustainable way, ensuring the Mendips are sympathetically used.
We aim to highlight the attractions of the Mendips, helping the local community benefit from the interest in outdoor pursuits, but without damaging the landscape we love and work in.
www.chooseyourevent.com /MoreDetails.asp?ID=3703   (299 words)

  
 Mendips, (National Trust) - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
Mendips was the childhood home of John Lennon, he lived there with his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George and composed early songs in the front porch and in his bedroom.
Mendips has been restored to its 1950s period glory.
You will be asked to deposit all handbags, cameras and recording equipment at the entrance to the house to be recovered when you leave.
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /museum/AM15709.html   (206 words)

  
 BBC - Liverpool Beatles - Mendips
Lennon lived at Mendips, in Menlove Avenue, Woolton, with his Aunt Mimi from the age of five to 23.
The house has been restored to the way it looked when Lennon lived there in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Visitors will be able to enjoy a joint tour of Mendips and the former home of Sir Paul at 20, Forthlin Road.
www.bbc.co.uk /liverpool/beatles/lennons_house/index.shtml   (250 words)

  
 Geophysical Methods in Geology
The Mendips Field Trip will take place during Wednesday to Sunday, May 10-14th.
Undertake gravity, magnetic and seismic measurements in the Mendip Hills [ABW, CM, PJ, MW, MR].
Mendips geophysical data processing and reduction [ABW, MW]
www.earth.ox.ac.uk /~tony/watts/teaching/mendips/2006/06T.html   (562 words)

  
 Mendips: Waterscape.com
It was on the 29 March 2003 that the National Trust opened John Lennon’s old childhood home, Mendips, to the public.
‘Mendips’ was bought by John’s widower Yoko Ono Lennon in 2002 who immediately donated it to the Trust.
The house, close to John’s childhood haunt ‘Strawberry Field’, had been updated although the National Trust have restored it to the way it was in the 1950’s when he lived there.
www.waterscape.com /servicesdirectory/Mendips   (147 words)

  
 Mendips
Mendips was a "nice semi-detached place with a small garden and doctors and lawyers and that ilk living around," Lennon has said.
Within a year, Lennon had moved out of Mendips and into the world.
Presented here are Lennon's first songs, with a few foetal Lennon/McCartney (or more accurately: McCartney/Lennon) fragments thrown in to give you a sense of their context.
lennonchords.info /mendips/index.htm   (603 words)

  
 FS CryptoCorner: Mendips Sighting Of Panther-Like Animal
Experts gathering in the Mendips to discuss reports of big cats roaming the countryside have already got one on their doorstep.
Mrs Jenkins does not want to reveal where she lives or the precise location of the field for fear that too many people may be attracted to the site.
She said yesterday: “I have lived in the Mendips all my life and I know a fox when I see one.
www.100megsfree4.com /farshores/abc_uk51.htm   (350 words)

  
 Wells
This route up to the Mendips is on a twisty narrow road, take care as there are a number of blind bends.
Why here - well the Mendips had plenty of water springs and the lead around here required only shallow mining - the Romans took lead from the Mendips too and traces of their activity can be found at nearby Charterhouse.
This short trip will give you a flavour of the Mendips - there is much more to be seen up on the hills if you have the time and interest to go and explore this lovely area.
members.tripod.com /wells_mendips/trip_a.htm   (1279 words)

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