Mendips

The house was called Mendips and had a big garden; at one time the Mayor of Liverpool had lived next door.

John Lennon, Cynthia 2005

It wasn’t a gig, really, just me and the guys muckin’ about on the street in front of Mendips, which is what we used to call my aunt Mimi’s house over on Menlove Avenue.

PAUL IS UNDEAD ALAN GOLDSHER 2010

Lennon's childhood home "Mendips", at 251 Menlove Avenue, and McCartney's family house at

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

If so, I shall remember the moment when I caught sight of one flying over the Mendips, and gave thanks for the adventuring spirit of birds.

Birdwatch: Pallid harrier 2011

PAUL MCCARTNEY: When I finished up the Cochran song, John invited me to bring my guitar over to Mendips the next day, and I said yes.

PAUL IS UNDEAD ALAN GOLDSHER 2010

I knew none of the local mortals would want to spend a beautiful spring day listening to a batch of local rugrats stumble through “Rock Island Line,” so I telepathically summoned all the undead within brain-shot to come to Mendips and watch us do our thing.

PAUL IS UNDEAD ALAN GOLDSHER 2010

The road from Axbridge to Wells runs south-eastward along a shelf at the edge of the Mendips, and the land that falls away below it towards Sedgemoor and Taunton in the south west has long been a rich source of fruit and vegetables.

Country diary: Somerset 2010

If he takes this kind of pleasure in associating with the great and good of the southern Mendips, then let him.

Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

If he takes this kind of pleasure in associating with the great and good of the southern Mendips, then let him.

Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

I grew up in a couple of places in central Somerset – edge of the Mendips.

Blackberry Babies « Anglican Samizdat 2009