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Compton Bishop, Village And Crook Peak 1907
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This route heads for the beautiful Mendip Hills, the carboniferous limestone ridge that separates the Avon valley and Bath and Bristol from the rest of Somerset. Their character is very different from the Quantocks or Exmoor; here, sheep scratch an existence from the poor limestone soils, and the fields are divided by dry stone walls. The Mendips rise to over 1000 feet, very steeply on the west side. Compton Bishop is at the western end on the slopes of a combe.

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A Selection of Memories from Compton Bishop

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Compton Bishop

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Grandparents Shop
My Grandparents, Joseph and Lilian Stokes, had this property built about 1953, they opened a general stores, the only one for miles around, and also ran the local post office in the shop, a few years later. Many many happy childhood memories at Big Tree Stores, my brother and I could help ourselves to anything, big tins of Roses and Lucky Numbers sat on the counter to be weighed out, and at Christmas the ...see more
Compton Bishop, Big Tree Stores c1960
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