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Leigh-on-Mendip or Leigh upon Mendip (on Ordnance Survey maps) is a small village on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. It lies roughly equidistant from Frome, Radstock and Shepton Mallet at about from each town. The village has several sporting clubs, including cricket, shortmat bowls and table tennis. There is a First School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leigh on Mendip First School )〕 ==History== 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''. The estate formed part of the manor and liberty of Mells and was held by Glastonbury Abbey from Saxontimes until the dissolution of the monasteries. It then passed to the Horner family.〔 The parish was part of the hundred of Frome.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/ )〕 On 19 June 1643 the village was the site of a skirmish in the English Civil War, between Royalist regiment of Sir James Hamilton and the parliamentary forces under Major Francis Duett. Some dwellings in Leigh on Mendip parish are close to the Halecombe limestone quarry. The quarry exhibits pale to dark grey well-bedded Carboniferous Limestone. There are abundant near-vertical fissures and joints in the limestone with varying amounts of calcite mineralization and tufa growth around groundwater seepages.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.somerset.gov.uk/somerset/ete/countryside/geodiversity/index.cfm?override=subtopic&infoid=4654 )〕 Quarrying activity was initiated at the time of the Second World War. It is now owned by Anglo American.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.somerset.gov.uk/somerset/media/7083B/Geodiversity%20-%20HALECOMBE-REPORT.pdf )〕 A "History of Leigh on Mendip" was web published in February 2007.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A History of Leigh on Mendip )〕 In 2007 Leigh on Mendip was chosen as the Calor Somerset Village of the Year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leigh on Mendip Celebrates with Tree Planting )〕 Leigh on Mendip was home to the television presenter Kevin McCloud, whom is known best from the UK television series; Grand Designs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/TV-presenter-names-Frome-favourite-town/story-12290089-detail/story.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leigh-on-Mendip」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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