Mells River
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| Mells River | |
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| Location | |
| Country | England |
| County | Somerset |
| Cities | Gurney Slade, Mells, Great Elm, Frome |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | River Frome |
• location | Frome, Somerset, England |
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| Tributaries | |
| • right | Finger Stream, Whatley Brook, Nunney Brook |
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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.[1] A few kilometres downstream it flows between the pre-Roman fortifications of Wadbury Camp to the north and Tedbury Camp to the south.[2] The river flows through the western part of the Harridge Woods nature reserve.[3]
Mells River also powered the Old Ironstone Works[4] and several other mills set up by James Fussell III in 1744.[5] It is now a 0.25 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, as it is used by both Greater and Lesser Horseshoe Bats.[6][7]
Vobster Inn Bridge, which carries the lane over the Mells River, is dated 1764 and is Grade II listed.[8] At Great Elm the Murtry Aqueduct,[9] built around 1795, carried the Dorset and Somerset Canal over the river.
The river takes the outfall from Whatley Quarry.[10] 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.[11] Water tracing showed this to be part of an underground part of the river 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) long. Archaeological investigations found the remains of woolly rhinoceros bones and a 1st-century bronze brooch.[12]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Park, Mells". Somerset Historic Environment Record. Somerset County Council. Retrieved 25 September 2009.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Phelps, William (1836), The History and Antiquities of Somersetshire: Being a General and Parochial Survey of that Interesting County. To which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, with a Brief View of Ecclesiastical History; and an Account of the Druidical, Belgic-British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, and Norman Antiquities, Now Extant, J.B. Nichols and son, p. 105, retrieved 19 August 2016
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Harridge Woods Leafet (PDF), Somerset Wildlife Trust, retrieved 22 August 2016
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Case for Extending the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty". Mendip Hills Society. 2005. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Atthill, Robin (1971). Old Mendip (2nd ed.). Newton Abbott: David and Charles. pp. 69–70. ISBN 0-7153-5171-0.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."English Nature citation sheet" (PDF). 2006. Retrieved 25 July 2006.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Thornes, Robin (2010). Men of iron. The Fussells of Mells. Frome Society for Local Study. ISBN 978-0-9565869-1-9.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Vobster Inn Bridge". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 14 November 2006.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Murtry Aqueduct". historicengland.org.uk. English Heritage. Retrieved 25 September 2009.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Quarry control helps maintain river levels". ABB. Retrieved 25 September 2009.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Mells and the Wadbury Valley". British Geological Survey. Retrieved 25 September 2009.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Stanton, W.I. (1982). "Mells River Sink: A spelaeological curiosity in east mendip Somerset" (PDF). Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelæological Society. 16 (2): 93–104.
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