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Dist:0.3km<br/>The footpath crosses a newly mown field to then go across a field of maize.

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.4km<br/>The field seems to have been sprayed with something unpleasant to kill all the weeds. As they say, "you can't make an omlette without breaking eggs."

©Maurice Pullin

Dist:0.5km<br/>A K6 type telephone box is trying to hide in the bushes near Sparks Farm.

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.5km<br/>Now a house.

©ChurchCrawler

Dist:0.5km<br/>A George V reign postbox set into a garden wall.

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.7km<br/>The Bell Inn is a beautiful 16th century building set high on the Mendip hills.

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.7km<br/>Seems to be well favoured. See http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/17/1705/Bell_Inn/Leigh_on_Mendip
for a mixed bag of reviews.

©Maurice Pullin

Dist:0.7km<br/>A ditch has to be crossed by a couple of planks before you reach the stile.

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.7km<br/>For more photos etc. of Leigh upon Mendip see http://www.somerset3d.co.uk/logos & pictures/town & village pages/leighuponmendip.htm#top
Have been unable to find what the hall is a memorial of, nothing on the web, seems a bit late for WWII but it could be.

©Maurice Pullin

Dist:0.7km<br/>If you see a pub with a sign of a bell, look around for the church. This ancient sign originated with pubs attached to or near early churches.

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.7km<br/>The seat commemorates the Millennium.

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.7km<br/>The hall has a date stone of 1956.

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.8km<br/>Prounounced as in "lie in bed".

©ChurchCrawler

Dist:0.8km<br/>Where clerks once huddled over their mysterious ledgers, booking empty lorries in and full ones out. They probably lived in nearby Leigh upon Mendip.
Halecombe Quarry still extracts limestone on the other side of the road.

©Maurice Pullin

Dist:0.9km<br/>Looking east.
An interesting point about the pronunciation: "The name of this village is pronounced lye or lie by local residents rather than lee, and probably comes from the Old English meaning grove or glade."
Copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_upon_Mendip#History where there is much more.

©Maurice Pullin

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