PRIDDY
The only hill top village on Mendip with its thirteenth century church overlooking the triangular shaped village green where each year the famous Priddy Sheep Fair is held. It is believed that the plague drove the fair from the city of Wells in 1348 to Priddy, however, it's also thought that it could of been the heavy tolls charged by the city that made the farmers change the location of the fair. Legend has it that the Priddy fair will return each year so long as the symbolic thatched hurdle stack remains standing on the village green. Will there be one next year? You will have to find out for yourself! |
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