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Shipham
Shipham (Somerset)
Shipham

Shipham shown within Somerset
Population 765
OS grid reference ST445575
District Sedgemoor
Shire county Somerset
Region South West
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Bristol
Postcode district BS25 1R
Dialling code 01934
Police Avon and Somerset
Fire Devon and Somerset
Ambulance South Western
European Parliament South West England
UK Parliament Wells
List of places: UK • England • Somerset

Coordinates: 51°18′50″N 2°47′44″W / 51.3138, -2.7956

The Square in Shipham with the War Memorial in the foreground. In the background St.Leonards Church.
The Square in Shipham with the War Memorial in the foreground. Somerset ( or) is a county in south west England The County town is Taunton, which is in the south of the county In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude The districts of England are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government Sedgemoor is a local government district of Somerset in England. Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties are one of the four levels of Subdivisions of England used for the purposes of Local government outside Greater London Somerset ( or) is a county in south west England The County town is Taunton, which is in the south of the county The region, also known as the government office region, is currently the highest tier of local government sub-national entity of England, with only one South West England is one of the Regions of England. It is the largest such region in terms of area and extends from Gloucestershire and Wiltshire to Constituent country is a phrase used often by official institutions in contexts in which a country makes up a part of a larger entity or grouping England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland This list of sovereign states, alphabetically arranged gives an overview of States around the world with information on the extent of their Sovereignty. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A post town is a required part of all postal addresses in the United Kingdom, and a basic unit of the postal delivery system Bristol ( ˈbrɪstəl is a city, Unitary authority and ceremonial county in South West England, west of London UK Postal codes are known as postcodes. UK postcodes are Alphanumeric. The, also known as the Bristol postcode area, is a group of postal districts around Axbridge, Banwell, Bristol, Cheddar, Clevedon The UK Telephone numbering plan, also known as the National Telephone Numbering Plan, is the system used for assigning Telephone numbers in the United There are a number of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom. Avon & Somerset Constabulary is the Home Office Police force in England responsible for policing the non-metropolitan county of Somerset and The fire service in the United Kingdom operates under separate legislative and administrative arrangements in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service or FRS, covering the counties of Devon and Somerset; it Divisions & Stations The trust is split into 2 divisions West - Devon and Cornwall including West Divisional HQ 999 and PTS Control at South West England is a Constituency of the European Parliament. This is a list of the 646 constituencies currently represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as at the 2005 general election Wells is a County constituency centred on the city of Wells in Somerset. A Gazetteer of place names in the United Kingdom showing each place's County, Unitary authority or council area and its geographical coordinates List of places --> List of cities in the United Kingdom List of towns in England Lists of places This is a list of cities, Towns Villages and hamlets in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. In the background St. Leonards Church.

Shipham (grid reference ST445575) is a village in Somerset, England on the western edge of the Mendip Hills near the A38, approximately 15 miles south of Bristol. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude Somerset ( or) is a county in south west England The County town is Taunton, which is in the south of the county England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The Mendip Hills (commonly called The Mendips) are a range of Limestone hills situated to the south of Bristol and Bath in Somerset The A38 is a major Trunk road in England. Though formally known as the Exeter - Leeds Trunk Road it actually runs from Bodmin in Cornwall Bristol ( ˈbrɪstəl is a city, Unitary authority and ceremonial county in South West England, west of London It is in the local government district of Sedgemoor. Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially ' shire districts', are a type of local government district in England. Sedgemoor is a local government district of Somerset in England. The population, according to the 2001 census, is 765.

Shipham Hill is one of the highest points in the Mendips at 1066 feet. The village has a panorama over Weston-super-Mare and the Bristol Channel which is mentioned in "Secret Places of the Heart" by H. G. Wells: "But the loveliness of the weather did not fail, and the whole day was set in Severn landscapes. Weston-super-Mare is a Seaside resort town and Civil parish in North Somerset, England. The Bristol Channel ( Môr Hafren) is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from Devon and Somerset Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 &ndash 13 August 1946 He was an outspoken socialist and a pacifist, his later works becoming increasingly political They first saw the great river like a sea with the Welsh mountains hanging in the sky behind as they came over the Mendip crest above Shipham".

Shipham was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Sipeham, meaning 'The sheep home' from the Old English scip and ham. The Domesday Book (ˈduːmzdeɪ bʊk also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey The tenant-in-chief is shown as being Roger de Courcelles. The title of Lord of the Manor arose in the English mediaeval system of Manorialism following the Norman Conquest. [1]

The 58 km (36 miles) Limestone Link Path runs from Shipham to Cold Ashton in Gloucestershire [1]

Near to the village is GB Cave

Contents

Mining

The substrata contain rich mineral deposits and so there were zinc and lead mines in the area. Cold Ashton is a village in South Gloucestershire, England The village church has a 14th century tower and the rest of the church was rebuilt in the 16th century by Thomas Key History See also History of Gloucestershire Gloucestershire is a historic county mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the 10th century GB Cave ( is a cave near Shipham in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. In Contact linguistics, a substratum ( lat sub: under + stratum: layer → lower layer) is a Language Zinc (ˈzɪŋk from Zink is a Metallic Chemical element with the symbol Zn and Atomic number 30 Characteristics Lead has a dull luster and is a dense, Ductile, very soft highly The 'Singing River Mine' which was worked in the 18th and 19th centuries for calamine (zinc carbonate), blende (zinc sulphide) and galena (lead sulphide). This article is about calamine in mineralogy For calamine used in calamine lotion see Calamine, for other uses of the word see Calamine (disambiguation. Galena is the natural mineral form of Lead sulfide. It is the most important Lead Ore mineral [2] In the 1920s it was used as an underground reservoir by the water authorities. A reservoir is most broadly a place or hollow vessel where Fluid is kept in Reserve, for later use A small stream flows through the mine in parts. The entrance is actually in the back garden of a private house but access is allowed for potholers. Caving or spelunking is the recreational Sport of exploring Caves In contrast Speleology is the scientific study of caves and the cave [3] The 5 meter high 19th Century Calamine processor is a grade II listed building. A listed building in the United Kingdom is a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural historical or cultural significance [4] The present landscape shows the piecemeal nature of the mining. Although the lead industry began to decline in the late seventeenth century, it revived in the mid 19th century when tips were re-worked. Its mining history has given rise to street names such as Hind Pits Lane, Hollow Road, and Comrade Avenue. The old mines have also meant that the soil is heavily contaminated by heavy metals such as cadmium. Cadmium (ˈkædmiəm is a Chemical element with the symbol Cd and Atomic number 48 This was investigated in 1979. Concentrations of cadmium, lead and zinc in local crops were higher than would normally be expected. Copper concentrations were normal, and the results for mercury showed that mercury translocation from soil to crops was very low. Copper (ˈkɒpɚ is a Chemical element with the symbol Cu (cuprum and Atomic number 29 Mercury (ˈmɜrkjʊri also called quicksilver or hydrargyrum, is a Chemical element with the symbol Hg ( Latinized hydrargyrum Dietary copper intakes at Shipham were a little lower than national average intakes. Four participants in the duplicate diet study, or 6% of the study population, had cadmium intakes higher than 0. 4 mg per week. [5]

There is also some evidence of field cultivation by the miners during the medieval period. [6]

Church

The Anglican parish church of St Leonard was built in 1843 by J. Wilson of Bath. Bath is a city in Somerset in the south west of England It is situated west of London and south-east of Bristol. It is a grade II listed building. Stained glass in north window of nave commemorates Hannah More,[7] who as part of her work to 'civilise' the people of Cheddar and the surrounding villages, particularly the lead-miners of Shipham, established the Shipham Church of England Voluntary Controlled School. For the Blackford Oakes novel see Stained Glass (novel The term stained glass refers either to the material of coloured Glass or to the art Hannah More ( February 2, 1745 – September 7, 1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist Cheddar is a large Village and Civil parish in the district of Sedgemoor in the English county of Somerset. A Chest Tomb to Amelia Day in the churchyard, 5 metres south of nave, is also a listed building. For the New York prison see The Tombs. A Tomb is a repository for the remains of the dead. [8]

Stock car racing

Near Shipham for over 40 years has flourished the 1/4 mile tarmac race track of Mendips Raceway, high on the Mendips. The venue is in the bowl of an old abandoned reservoir, features the oft misunderstood British sport of stock-car racing. Stock car racing is a form of Automobile racing found mainly in the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Great Britain Since 1954, this sport has encouraged do-it-yourselfers to build and race "specials" to compete in full contact competition. The big-league formula has winged cars with 500+ horsepower V-8 motors, and the smaller F2 cars have 2-litre four-bangers, lightweight but hardy. A working man's sport for many years, there is now money, sponsorship, international match racing, and television.

The race track is perched on the edge of Batts Combe quarry and the views from the edge, across Cheddar and the Cheddar Valley towards Glastonbury Tor and the Bristol Channel are spectacular. Batts Combe quarry, is a Limestone Quarry on the edge of Cheddar village on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. Cheddar is a large Village and Civil parish in the district of Sedgemoor in the English county of Somerset. Glastonbury Tor is a Hill at Glastonbury, Somerset, England, which features the roofless St The Bristol Channel ( Môr Hafren) is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from Devon and Somerset

References

  1. ^ Robinson, Stephen (1992). Somerset Place Names. Wimbourne: The Dovecote Press Ltd. ISBN 1874336032.  
  2. ^ Firth, Hannah (2007). Mendip from the air. Taunton: Somerset County Council. ISBN 9780861833900.  
  3. ^ Singing River Mine. The Mine Explorer Society web site. Retrieved on 2006-06-30. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the Usurper
  4. ^ Calamine processor at N6R ST 4439 5739. Images of England. Retrieved on 2006-06-30. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the Usurper
  5. ^ Dietary surveys on a population at Shipham, Somerset, United Kingdom.. Sci Total Environ. 1983 Jul;29(1-2):121-42. . Retrieved on 2006-06-30. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the Usurper
  6. ^ Mendip Hills An Archaeological Survey of the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Somerset County Council Archaeological Projects. Retrieved on 2006-10-28. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 306 - Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor. 312 - Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine
  7. ^ Church of St Leonard. Images of England. Retrieved on 2006-06-30. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the Usurper
  8. ^ Chest Tomb to Amelia Day. Images of England. Retrieved on 2006-06-30. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the Usurper

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