Stogumber

Stogumber (/stəˈɡʌmbər/) is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, on the eastern flank of the Brendon Hills.

[2] Approximately 0.8 miles (1.3 km) north-west of the village is Curdon Camp a univallate Iron Age hill fort.

It is also part of the Tiverton and Minehead county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

[9] It was founded as a Saxon minster with a chapelry at Bicknoller and other dues payable from property in Monksilver, Clatworthy and Elworthy.

[13] John de Stogumber is the name of a chaplain in George Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan.

[15] Gabriel Stogumber is the name of a Bow Street Runner investigating the robbery of a consignment of newly minted gold sovereigns in Georgette Heyer's novel The Toll-Gate.