Sheep graze on a hillside outside Chewton Mendip, Somerset. Chewton Mendip is a village and civil parish in the Mendip District of Somerset, England and within the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Chew Valley. Wool has for centuries been a source of great wealth to the towns of south-west England whose legacies are the fine country homes of merchants, the churches and cathedrals bestowed on the local communities. Nowadays in ther Mendip Hills, dairy farming has become more lucrative.