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The Mells River flows through the eastern Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. It rises at Gurney Slade and flows east joining the River Frome at Frome. The river forms one of the boundaries of Mells Park, a country house estate in Mells. Mells River also powered the Old Ironstone Works and several other mills set up by James Fussell III in 1744. It is now a 0.25 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, as it is used by both Greater and Lesser Horseshoe Bats.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1000912.pdf )〕 Vobster Inn Bridge, which carries the lane over the Mells River, is dated 1764, and is Grade II listed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 At Great Elm the Murtry Aqueduct, built around 1795, carried the Dorset and Somerset Canal over the river. The river takes the outfall from Whatley Quarry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Quarry control helps maintain river levels )〕 Downstream of the outfall is the Mells River Sink. This acts as a spring when the water table is high and as a sink into underground aquifers, through the Limestone, when the water table is low.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mells and the Wadbury Valley )〕 Water tracing showed this to be part of an underground part of the river long. Archaeological investigations found the remains of woolly rhinoceros bones and a 1st-century bronze broach. ==References== 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「Mells River」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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