Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Pennypound

Pennypound, on Sedgemoor, Somerset, 4 miles SE. of Bridgwater; here Fairfax encamped after the battle of Langport (1645), and the Duke of Monmouth was defeated (1685) by the Earl of Feversham.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Administrative units: Somerset AncC
Place: Pennypound

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