PENNARD (EAST), a parish in the hundred of
WHITESTONE, county of SOMERSET, 5 miles (S. S.W.)
from Shepton-Mallet, containing 755 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, with the perpetual curacy
of West Bradley annexed, in the archdeaconry of Wells,
and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books
at £7. 4. 9., endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the
Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church is dedicated
to All Saints. The old Roman Fosse-way bounds the
parish on the south-east.