Penselwood
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Penselwood or Pen Selwood is a village and civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It lies north east of Wincanton, south east of Bruton, west of Mere, and north west of Gillingham. The south-east of the parish borders Zeals and Stourhead in Wiltshire, and Bourton in Dorset. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 314.
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Place details
- Locality
- Penselwood
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Michael's Church, Penselwood
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Penselwood
- UK place.population
- 314
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021)
- UK place.unitary_england
- Somerset Council
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Somerset
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Glastonbury and Somerton
- UK place.post_town
- Wincanton
- UK place.postcode_district
- BA9
- UK place.postcode_area
- BA
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- ST754314
- UK place.static_image_name
- St. Michaels, Penselwood - geograph.org.uk - 188722.jpg
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 314
- Image
- St. Michaels, Penselwood - geograph.org.uk - 188722.jpg
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- Penselwood
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Penselwood or Pen Selwood is a village and civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It lies north east of Wincanton, south east of Bruton, west of Mere, and north west of Gillingham. The south-east of the parish borders Zeals and Stourhead in Wiltshire, and Bourton in Dorset. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 314.
==Name== The medieval form of the name was "Penn in Selwood", where pen (Brittonic for "head") probably referred to a hill and Selwood was the Selwood Forest which once surrounded the area. David Nash Ford associated nearby Ilchester with the listed among the 28 cities of Britain by the History of the Britons on the basis that it should be read as an Old Welsh form of 'Penselwood' (coit being Welsh for "forest"), although others view it as three separate words: Pensa or Coyt. Bishop Ussher believed the listing referred to Exeter instead.
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