Bodden

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Bodden
Bodden (Somerset)
Bodden

Bodden shown within Somerset
OS grid reference ST639441
District Mendip
Shire county Somerset
Region South West
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Postcode district BA4
Dialling code 01749
Police Avon and Somerset
Fire Devon and Somerset
Ambulance South Western
European Parliament South West England
List of places: UKEnglandSomerset

Coordinates: 51°11′42″N 2°31′02″W / 51.195, -2.5173

Bodden is a village 1 mile (1.6 km) north east of Shepton Mallet in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. It was founded in 1541 by Earl Michael Bodden (1512-1569).

Notable former residents include Trish Bodden (1753-1777), who disguised herself as a man to fight in the American War of Independence (she was killed at Saratoga), and Amrose Bowden (sic), the first English colonist to settle in Maine. [1]

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