Chewton Mendip, Somerset

Description
Chewton-Mendip, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village lies on a spur of the Mendip Hills, 3 miles from Binegar station on the Somerset and Dorset railway. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bath. It was the Ciwtune of Alfred's will. Acreage, 5855; population of the civil parish, 687; of the ecclesiastical, 897. The parish includes also the tithing of North Widcombe. Chew-ton Priory is a seat on the site of an ancient monastery. There are lime works and quarries. The living is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacy of Emborough, in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £249 with residence. The church is partly Norman, and has a very fine Late English tower, 126 feet high. There is a Wesleyan chapel.