The village of Mells in Somerset has longe been associated with the Little Jack Horner Nursery Rhyme. This account of that link was published in Heroes and Heroines of Fiction, Classical Mediæval, Legendary: Famous Chracters and Famous Names in Novels, Romances, Poems and Dramas, Classified, Analyzed and criticised, with Supplementary Citations from the best Authorities by William Shepard Walsh, Published in 1915.
Little Jack Horner
January 27, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Horner, Mells, Popham, Thynne, Windham
Frome, Somerset (1822)
January 19, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, Location)
Tags: Codrington, Frome, Phillott, Selwood, Thynne
The description of Frome, Somerset, England which follow is taken from ‘Somersetshire Delineated’, published in 1822 by Christopher and John Greenwood, Surveyors, a Topographical Description of each Town, Parish, Chapelry, etc. in the county.
