Shepton Mallet

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary

Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Maxime Guénette, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott

Last modified Nov 14, 2025 07:20 AM — History

tags: dare:major=0, dare:ancient=0, dare:feature=settlement

Shepton Mallet is located along the Fosse Way, midway between the Roman towns of Bath and Ilchester.

Show place in Google Earth.

Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79682

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
51.189742, -2.547347

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 3542 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Shepton Mallet (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)

Shepton Mallet makes connections with:

Shepton Mallet located on Fosse Way (AD 43 - AD 410)

Shepton Mallet receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

References:

See Further:

Related:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 E3 Shepton Mallet

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Shepton Mallet

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, Maxime Guénette, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Shepton Mallet: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79682> [accessed: 17 February 2026]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79682 |title=Places: 79682 (Shepton Mallet) |author=Esmonde Cleary, A. |accessdate=February 17, 2026 10:54 am |publisher=Pleiades}}