East Pennard

infobox UK place

country = England
latitude= 51.1352

longitude= -2.6150

official_name= East Pennard
civil_parish=
population = 383 [cite web | title= Mendip Parish Population Estimates 2002 | work=Somerset County Council | url=http://www.somerset.gov.uk/media/030F1/mendip_02mye.pdf | accessdate=2006-11-25]
shire_district= Mendip
shire_county = Somerset
region= South West England

constituency_westminster= Somerton and Frome
post_town=
postcode_district= BA
postcode_area=BA
dial_code=
os_grid_reference= ST595375

East Pennard is a village and civil parish four miles north west of Castle Cary, and 5 miles south of Shepton Mallet, in the Mendip district of Somerset, England.

The church, dedicated to All Saints, dates from the 14th century with a tower containing a clock and five bells. They are the heaviest peal of five bells hung for English change ringing by rope and wheel.Fact|date=February 2008 It contains a Norman font and several stained-glass windows, also an altar screen and monuments of the Martines and Napiers. It is a grade I listed building. [cite web | title=Church of All Saints | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=268364 | accessdate=2006-11-25]

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