Sedgemoor

[ sej-moo r ]

/ ˈsɛdʒˌmʊər /

a plain in SW England, in central Somerset: final defeat of Monmouth 1685.

Example sentences from the Web for sedgemoor

In the fields between the church and Chedzoy were buried the slain of Sedgemoor.

Somerset |G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade
I do but know that there in the great Sedgemoor morass are buried the bones of the traitor and the spy.

Micah Clarke |Arthur Conan Doyle
One has the mark of a bullet in his cheek, caught in the battle of Sedgemoor.

Under the Mendips |Emma Marshall
He had himself been out with Monmouth, and taken part in the fight at Sedgemoor.

Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) |Leslie Stephen

From the hill behind the village (marked by a windmill) an excellent view of the full extent of Sedgemoor may be obtained.

Somerset |G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade

Sedgemoor

/ (ˈsɛdʒˌmʊə) /

a low-lying plain in SW England, in central Somerset: scene of the defeat (1685) of the Duke of Monmouth