PENNARD (WEST), a parish in the hundred of
GLASTON-TWELVE-HIDES, county of SOMERSET, 3
miles (E. by S.) from Glastonbury, containing 890 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed Jo
that of St. John the Baptist in Glastonbury, and in
the peculiar jurisdiction of Glastonbury, endowed -with
£ 1400 parliamentary grant. The church is dedicated
to St. Nicholas. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists.