King's Sedgemoor

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox SSSI

|image=200px

|name=King's Sedgemoor

|aos=Somerset

|interest=Biological

|gridref={{gbmappingsmall|ST400330}}

|coordinates = {{coord|51.09316|-2.85815|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}}

|displaymap=Somerset

|area={{convert|822|ha|km2 sqmi}}

|notifydate={{Start date|1985}}

|enref=1002344

}}

King's Sedgemoor is a piece of rich animal habitat and farming land, that forms part of the Somerset Levels and Moors in South West England.

The area of King's Sedgemoor fell within the Whitley Hundred,{{cite web|title=Somerset Hundreds|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/|publisher=GENUKI|access-date=22 October 2011}}

It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, at the centre of the larger Altcar series peat basin of King’s Sedgemoor; lying between the Sowy River to the west, Cradle Bridge to the east and extending to the south over Beer Wall into part of Aller Moor.{{cite web|title=King's Sedgmoor |url=http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1002344.pdf |publisher=English Nature |access-date=22 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926210349/http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1002344.pdf |archive-date=26 September 2011 }} It is adjacent to the Greylake SSSI.

King's Sedgemoor Drain, originally constructed in 1797-8, proved inadequate for draining the village of Chedzoy's moors, so in 1861 the Chedzoy Internal Drainage District built a small pumping station on the River Parrett, in Westonzoyland parish, to drain the Chedzoy moors southwards.{{cite book |first=Michael |last=Williams |author-link=Michael Williams (geographer) |year=1970 |title=The Draining of the Somerset Levels |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-07486-X |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/drainingofsomers0000will }}