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Dist:0.2km<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:0.3km<br/>Leigh upon Mendip hugs Leigh Street for a little over half a mile.
The village has a number of interesting web sites, this is one http://www.leigh-on-mendip.org.uk/

©Maurice Pullin

Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking east. Note the traffic sign for the school. http://www.leighonmendipfirstschool2.ik.org/p_Welcome_To_The_Leigh_On_Mendip_First_School_Web_Site.ikml

©Maurice Pullin

Dist:0.3km<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

Dist:0.3km<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:0.4km<br/>The hall has a date stone of 1956.

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.4km<br/>The seat commemorates the Millennium.

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.4km<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:0.4km<br/>The road to the left is signposted "Leigh upon Mendip" and to the right "Coleford" and "Vobster." The lane ahead goes nowhere in particular and the lorry came from Halecombe Limestone Quarry behind the camera.
(The photographer was standing well up on the grass verge with his knees still shaking.)

©Maurice Pullin

Dist:0.4km<br/>Vobster straight ahead, Leigh upon Mendip behind, Halecombe Quarry right and Holcombe left.

©Maurice Pullin

Dist:0.4km<br/>Prounounced as in "lie in bed".

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Dist:0.4km<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:0.4km<br/>The Bell Inn is a beautiful 16th century building set high on the Mendip hills.

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.6km<br/>A George V reign postbox set into a garden wall.

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.6km<br/>On the road between Vobster and Leigh upon Mendip.

©Maurice Pullin

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