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Chewton-Mendip in Somerset County England History and GeographyCHEWTON-MENDIP, a parish in the hundred of CHEWTON, county of SOMERSET, 5¾ miles (N.E. by N.) from Wells, containing, with the tything of Widcombe, 1327 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, with the curacies of Emborrow, Farrington-Gurney, Paulton, and Stone-Easton annexed, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £29. 11. 8. J. Kingsmill, Esq. was patron in 1814. The church, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, is in the decorated style of English architecture, with some Norman remains, having a fine tower one hundred and twenty-six feet high, surmounted by lofty pinnacles. Here is an endowed school, with an income of £20, arising from an enclosure called Chew Down, for the instruction of twenty children; and John Dory bequeathed £100, which, being vested in land, produces £10. 10. per annum, for teaching fourteen girls. The village is situated amidst the Mendip Hills, where there are extensive mines of lead-ore and lapis calaminaris; the former are not now worked, and the trade in the latter is much reduced. There is a fair for toys, &c. on Holy Thursday: the petty sessions for the division are held here. In the reign of Henry VIII., a dispute arose between the prior of Greenoar cell upon Mendip and the tenants within this manor, relative to some infringement on the rights of the religious by the miners, to settle which, the lord chief justice came expressly into the county, and laid the basis of the laws by which the miners are now governed; any miner considering himself aggrieved, complains to the Ledreeve, who summons a jury of twenty-four miners, to adjudicate on the case, from whose decision there is no appeal. Various modes of punishment are applied, the highest being expulsion from the hills. Chewton gives the title of viscount to the Earl of Waldegrave. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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