Editing Shepton Mallet (section)

===Town areas===
[[File:Kilver Court Gardens Shepton Mallet.jpg|alt=View of a garden containing a number of evergreen trees and a palm tree, with a lake in the foreground and the arches of a disused railway viaduct in the background.|thumb|Kilver Court Gardens]]
Shepton Mallet has distinct areas that originated as separate communities around the central point of the church and Market Place.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stone |first=Alan |title=Shepton Mallet: A Visible History |year=2005 |publisher=Shepton Mallet Local History Group |isbn=0-9548125-1-4 |page=26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Davis |first1=Fred |last2= Blandford |first2=Alan |last3=Beckerleg |first3=Lewis |title=The Shepton Mallet Story (2nd ed.) |year=1977 |publisher=The Shepton Mallet Society |location=Oakhill, Somerset |isbn=978-0-9500568-1-4 |pages=36–37}}</ref> The town centre consists of two streets: High Street, running south from the Market Place towards the Townsend Retail Park, and the pedestrianised Town Street running north to Waterloo Bridge. To the east, separated from the Market Place by the academy complex, is the parish [[Church of St Peter and St Paul, Shepton Mallet|church of St Peter and St Paul]]. Lower Lane, under Waterloo Bridge along the bottom of the river valley to the north of the town centre, is one of the few parts where the [[River Sheppey]] runs above ground. At the eastern end is Leg Square, surrounded by three large houses originally built by owners of some of the town's mills.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stone |first=Alan |title=Shepton Mallet: A Visible History |year=2005 |publisher=Shepton Mallet Local History Group |isbn=0-9548125-1-4 |page=16}}</ref><ref name="edengrove"/><ref name="TheManorHouse"/> Close by is Cornhill, on which the former prison stands.

Roughly eastwards, Garston Street, also in the valley-bottom, consists of a row of weavers' and other artisans' cottages dating from the 17th century.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stone |first=Alan |title=Shepton Mallet: A Visible History| year=2005 |publisher=Shepton Mallet Local History Group |isbn=0-9548125-1-4 |pages=27–28}}</ref> The eastern end of the area, adjacent to Kilver Street, is now occupied by cider breweries. Across Kilver Street (the [[A37 road|A37]]) is [[Kilver Court]], which in the 20th century was a factory, headquarters of a brewing business, and then headquarters of a leather-goods manufacturer.<ref name="Stone23">{{Cite book |last=Stone |first=Alan |title=Shepton Mallet: A Visible History |year=2005 |publisher=Shepton Mallet Local History Group |isbn=0-9548125-1-4 |pages=23–24}}</ref> Behind are Kilver Court Gardens, originally built by [[Showerings]] for the recreation of its staff<ref name="Stone23"/> and set against a backdrop of part of the [[Charlton Viaduct]]. These are now open to the public.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kilvercourt.com/garden |title=Kilver Court Gardens |access-date=7 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403003403/http://kilvercourt.com/garden |archive-date=3 April 2012}}</ref> On the eastern edge of the town is '''Charlton''', which has former breweries and mills, now converted into a trading estate.<ref name="Stone23"/> Right on the edge of the town is Charlton House, a luxury hotel and spa.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.charltonhouse.com/ |title=Charlton House Hotel and Spa |access-date=23 February 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100306182531/http://www.charltonhouse.com/ |archive-date= 6 March 2010}}</ref>

[[File:Norah Fry Shepton Mallet.jpg|alt=Workhouse building.|thumb|left|Norah Fry Hospital, formerly the Shepton Mallet Union Workhouse]]
On the south side of the town is a triangle of land bounded on the east by the [[A37 road|A37]], on the north by the former [[East Somerset Railway]], and on the west by Cannard's Grave Road: Tadley Acres is a modern housing development built on land partly belonging to the [[Duchy of Cornwall]]. The development has been praised for its design quality and use of local, natural building materials.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cabe.org.uk/files/housing-audit-2006.pdf |title=Housing audit: Assessing the design quality of new housing in the East Midlands, West Midlands and the South West |publisher=Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment |pages=28–31, 50–53 and 62 |year=2007 |access-date=19 February 2010}}</ref> North of the former railway is Collett Park. Across Cannard's Grave Road from Tadley Acres is the [[Mid-Somerset Show]]ground. Just to the south-west of the town centre, on a site which at the start of the 20th century had been the grounds of the former Summerleaze House<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/Maps/OS62htm/4112.htm |title=Shepton Mallet: 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey Map |publisher=Somerset Record Office |year=1903 |access-date=23 February 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110101355/http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/maps/os62htm/4112.htm |archive-date=10 January 2010 }}</ref> and then a shoe factory, is the Townsend Retail Park, built in 2006–2007.

West Shepton, the south-west corner of town, contains the former Shepton Mallet [[Poor law union|Union]] [[Workhouse]], a Grade II listed building of 1848.<ref>{{NHLE |desc=Norah Fry Hospital |num=1345246 |access-date=22 September 2011}}</ref> Later serving as the [[Norah Fry]] mental hospital, it is now a housing development.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.norahfrysheptonmallet.co.uk/ |title=Norah Fry (Shepton Mallet) Ltd |access-date=22 September 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402193820/http://www.norahfrysheptonmallet.co.uk/ |archive-date=2 April 2012}}</ref> On the nearby western edge is a modern community hospital. Down the valley are the hamlets of Darshill, once the site of several mills,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/hes/downloads/EUS_Shepton_MalletText.pdf |title=Shepton Mallet |last=Gathercole |first=Clare |work=Somerset Urban Archaeological Survey |publisher=Somerset County Council |year=2003 |access-date=2 February 2010 |page=22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717063246/http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/hes/downloads/EUS_Shepton_MalletText.pdf |archive-date=17 July 2011}}</ref> and Bowlish, which contains several grand clothiers' houses.<ref name="Bowlish houses"/> The sloping fields by the river between Bowlish and the rest of Shepton are known as The Meadows. To their east is Hillmead, a council estate of the 1960s.<ref name="Mendip District Council"/>