10-606: Mendip may refer to: Mendip District , a former local government district of Somerset, England Mendip Hills , a group of hills in Somerset, England Mendip Way , a footpath across the Mendip Hills Mendip TV Mast , a transmitter in the Mendips area Forest of Mendip , an ancient forest in Somerset, England Baron Mendip , a short-lived title of
20-514: A unitary authority for the area previously served by Somerset County Council . Elections for the new council took place in May 2022, and it ran alongside Mendip and the other councils until their abolition in April 2023. The five main settlements of the former Mendip council were Frome , Glastonbury , Shepton Mallet , Street and Wells. Frome, Glastonbury and Shepton Mallet were the only towns in
30-472: Is 'Mighty and Awesome' from the Old English moen and deop . Until 2023, Mendip district fell under the jurisdiction of Mendip District Council. At the 2019 local elections, no party gained overall control. As of March 2022, the council had 23 Liberal Democrats, 12 Conservatives, 10 Greens, and 2 Independents. On 1 April 2023, the council was abolished and replaced by Somerset Council ,
40-517: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mendip District Download coordinates as: Mendip was a local government district of Somerset in England. The district covered a largely rural area of 285 square miles (738 km ) with a population of approximately 112,500, ranging from the Wiltshire border in the east to part of
50-768: The Somerset Levels in the west. The district took its name from the Mendip Hills . The administrative centre of the district was Shepton Mallet but the largest town was Frome . The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 by a merger of the municipal boroughs of Glastonbury and Wells , along with Frome, Shepton Mallet, and Street urban districts , and Frome Rural District , Shepton Mallet Rural District , Wells Rural District , part of Axbridge Rural District and part of Clutton Rural District. On 1 April 2023,
60-712: The East Somerset Railway Mendips (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with Mendip All pages with titles containing Mendip Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mendip . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mendip&oldid=1148009722 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
70-708: The Peerage of Great Britain Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip (1713–1802) Mendip Power Group , micro electricity generation in the Mendip area Mendip Rail , freight operating railway company HMS Mendip (L60) , a Royal Navy destroyer See also [ edit ] Chewton Mendip , a village in the Mendip Hills Mendip Times , a monthly magazine in the Mendip and Somerset area Mendip Vale railway station , western terminus of
80-446: The district was abolished and became part of Somerset Council , a unitary authority . Several explanations for the name Mendip have been suggested. Its earliest known form is Mendepe in 1185. One suggestion is that it is derived from the medieval term Myne-deepes . However, A D Mills derives its meaning from Celtic monith , meaning mountain or hill, with an uncertain second element, perhaps Old English yppe in
90-484: The district, with Wells having city status and Street maintaining its status as a village despite a population in excess of 11,000. Other villages and hamlets included: [REDACTED] Media related to Mendip District at Wikimedia Commons Wells Rural District Wells was a rural district in Somerset , England, from 1894 to 1974. It was created in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894 , taking over
100-552: The sense of upland, or plateau. An alternative explanation is that the name is cognate with Mened (Welsh mynydd ), a Brythonic term for upland moorland. The suffix may be a contraction of the Anglo-Saxon hop , meaning a valley. Possible further meanings have been identified. The first is 'the stone pit' from the Celtic meyn and dyppa in reference to the collapsed cave systems of Cheddar . The second
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