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  2. King's Sedgemoor - Wikipedia

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    King's Sedgemoor is a piece of rich animal habitat and farming land, that forms part of the Somerset Levels and Moors in South West England. The area of King's Sedgemoor fell within the Whitley Hundred , [ 1 ]

  3. Winter flooding of 2013–14 on the Somerset Levels - Wikipedia

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    Around 70% of deep peat in the Somerset Levels and Moors is likely to be losing carbon due to intensive livestock grazing, cultivation and direct extraction. Maize cultivation has increased, and most soils under maize were damaged to the extent that rainfall is unable to penetrate the upper soil layers, resulting in silt-laden runoff.

  4. File:The Map of Sedgemoor, with adjacent Parts (1662).jpg

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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 ...

  5. Sedgemoor - Wikipedia

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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 .

  6. Highbridge, Somerset - Wikipedia

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    However, since cuts by Sedgemoor District Council in 2007/08, these offices have not been open to the public. Like most British towns Highbridge has had its ample share of alehouses and inns. Many of these depended on trade from the wharf and livestock market and numerous public houses existed close to these facilities along Newtown Road.

  7. Somerset Levels - Wikipedia

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    The area is prone to winter floods of fresh water and occasional salt water inundations. The worst in recorded history was the Bristol Channel floods of 1607, which resulted in the drowning of an estimated 2,000 or more people, houses and villages swept away, an estimated 200 square miles (500 km 2) of farmland inundated, and livestock killed. [10]

  8. West Sedgemoor - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. List of national nature reserves in Somerset - Wikipedia

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    The districts of Somerset are West Somerset, South Somerset, Taunton Deane, Mendip and Sedgemoor. The two administratively independent unitary authorities, which were established on 1 April 1996 following the breakup of the county of Avon, are North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset.

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