Goathurst

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Goathurst
Goathurst shown within Somerset
OS grid reference	ST255345
District	Sedgemoor
Shire county	Somerset
Region	South West
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BRIDGWATER
Dialling code	01278
Police	Avon and Somerset
Fire	Devon and Somerset
Ambulance	South Western
European Parliament	South West England
UK Parliament	Bridgwater
List of places: UK • England • Somerset

Coordinates: 51°06′18″N 3°03′55″W / 51.1049, -3.0654

Goathurst is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Somerset, around 3 miles from the town of Bridgwater. The parish includes the hamlet of Andersfield.

Originally part of the Royal Forest of North Petherton, its first squire owned [1]Goathurst's St Edward's church ( a grade I listed building^[1]) includes a 19th century monument to three-year-old Isabella Kemeys, which shows the child lying on a pillow holding a broken flower [2]

It was the location of a 300 person prisoner of war camp during World War II, initially housing Italian prisoners from the Western Desert Campaign, and later German prisoners following the Battle of Normandy.