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Coordinates: 50°55'37?N 2°49'10?W? / ?50.927, -2.8195
Lopen is a village and civil parish in the English county of Somerset, situated eight miles west of Yeovil in the South Somerset district.
The village has a population of 248[2]. It is listed in the Domesday Book.
The Parish of Lopen is bounded to the north by the A303 Trunk Road and to the south by Lopen Brook with the road from South Petherton to Merriott, Crewkerne and the South Coast running through the middle.
The only retail outlets in the parish are the pub and an organic food shop at Lopen Head, but although they are in the parish they are not really in the village itself which is located half a mile to the south. Furthermore the road from Lopenhead to Lopen descends steeply through a deep and twisty cutting with no pedestrian pavement, consequently these outlets cannot safely be reached on foot from the village.
Between Lopenhead and Lopen the road crosses the ancient Roman Fosse Way, which at this point is just a minor country lane. A spectacular Roman mosaic, probably from a Roman villa, was found in the village in 2001.
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- , Somerset County Council, 2002. Population estimates.
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