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Sedgemoor is a low-lying area of land in Somerset, England. It lies close to sea level south of the Polden Hills , historically largely marsh (or "moor" in its older sense). [ 2 ] The eastern part is known as King's Sedgemoor , and the western part West Sedgemoor .
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English: Full caption: "The Map of Sedgemoor, with adjacent Parts." Source: Dugdale, William. The History of Imbanking and Drayning of Divers Fenns and Marshes: Both in Forein Parts, and in this Kingdom, and of the Improvement Thereby, Extracted from Records, Manuscripts, and Other Authentick Testimonies. United Kingdom, Warren, 1772. Second ...
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Map of Somerset, UK with Sedgemoor highlighted. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 155%: Date: 27 February 2011: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData. Coastline and administrative boundary data from Boundary-Line product. Lake data from Meridian 2 product. Inset derived from England location map.svg by Spischot. Author
"The Map of Sedgemoor, with adjacent Parts" from "The history of imbanking and drayning" by William Dugdale (1662).. The area through which the drain runs was farmed as common land when it was owned by the Abbey at Glastonbury, but with its dissolution in 1539, the land was divided among owners, with the soil belonging to the Crown.
West Sedgemoor or West Sedge Moor (grid reference) is an area of the Somerset Levels, in Somerset, England, around 8 miles (13 km) east of Taunton, which approximately coincides with the West Sedgemoor biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, a 1,016 hectare (3.9 sq miles) site notified as an SSSI in 1983.
The area of King's Sedgemoor fell within the Whitley Hundred, [1] It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, at the centre of the larger Altcar series peat basin of King’s Sedgemoor; lying between the Sowy River to the west, Cradle Bridge to the east and extending to the south over Beer Wall into part of Aller Moor. [2]