{"id":41192,"count":1,"description":"Priddy is a village in Somerset, England in the Mendip Hills, close to East Harptree and 5 miles (8\u00a0km) north-west of Wells. It is in the local government district of Mendip.\nThe village lies in a small hollow near the summit of the Mendip range of hills, at an elevation of nearly 1,000 feet (300\u00a0m) above sea-level, and has evidence of occupation since neolithic times. There are also the remains of lead mining activities and caves in the limestone beneath the village.\nIt is the venue for the annual Folk Festival and Sheep Fair, which has been held here since 1348.\nPriddy, with medieval variations of spellings such as Predy, Priddie, Pridi, Pridia, Pridie and Prydde, is a name that has been ascribed to the Welsh influence that pre-dated the arrival of the Saxon English. It has been particularly attributed to pridd (= \"earth\"). This might be suggestive of the Iron Age mining activities. The Latin words pratum (= a meadow) and praedium (= a farm) have given rise to such Alpine names as...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/priddy\/","name":"Priddy","slug":"priddy","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/41192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=41192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}