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The District of Sedgemoor is located in the County of Somerset in The South Western Counties of England, it covers an administrative area of 564Km² and in 2001 was home to a population of 109,100 persons, that represents 0.22% of that of England and 0.19% of the population of the entire United Kingdom.
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Burnham on Sea |
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We are beginning to link the entries in our British Flora and Fauna database to specific locations in the British Isles. This table will allow you to see what wildlife you can find here and if you use the links below you can find out more about each individual species. |
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Sedgemoor is a place to itself - low-lying parts of it below springtide level, a great marsh, drained by "rhines" that run through sluices into the high-banked Parrett or the King's Sedgemoor Drain, which is the "navigation" - though few boats navigate it - of the River Cary. Sedgemoor is not a good pasture-ground, as so much of it is from time to time cut for peat, and in the winter time and early spring liable to lengthy floods. When - it is worth mentioning en passant - a great thunderstorm broke over Somerset in July of 1917, and the loss of grass - it was harvest time - was tremendous, the water was out on the moor, and could find no outlet, owing to the spring tides, through the sluices. So for more than a fortnight, though the storm was over, the water remained out.
Dotted about the moor are island - Athelney and Middlezoy and Chedzoy; between these last was fought the Battle of Sedgemoor on the evening of July 5th, 1685, the last battle to be fought in England.