PENSFORD (ST-THOMAS), a parish in the hundred of KEYNSHAM, county of SOMERSET, 27 miles (N; N.E.) from Somerton, containing 319 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Stanton-Drew, in the archdeaconry of Bath, and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church is dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. The river Chew rtfns through the parish, and turns several considerable copper-mills, which, with the adjacent coal mines, afford employment to the greater portion of the inhabitants. A market, formerly held by charter at this place, has been disused for some years past; but there are still two fairs, on May 6th and November 8th.