East Pennard, Somerset

Description
Pennard, East, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village stands 1 mile from the Fosse Way, 5 miles SSW of Shepton Mallet, and 2 from Pylle station on the Somerset and Dorset railway. It has a post office under Shepton Mallet; money order and telegraph office, Pilton. The parish contains also the hamlets of Stone, Parbrook, and Huxham. Acreage, 3042 ; population of the civil parish, 553 ; of the ecclesiastical, 489. There is a parish council consisting of five members and a chairman. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church is Later English; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with S porch and W tower containing five bells; and contains a Norman font, a mosaic reredos, and monuments of the Martins and the Napiers. There is a Wesleyan chapel.