The Battle of Sedgemoor was the last and decisive engagement between the Kingdom of England and rebels led by the Duke of Monmouth during the Monmouth rebellion, fought on 6 July 1685, and took place at Westonzoyland near Bridgwater in Somerset.

The royalist forces prevailed and about 500 troops captured. Monmouth escaped from the battlefield but was later captured and taken to London for trial and execution.

Many of Monmouth's supporters were tried during the Bloody Assizes .

Many were transported abroad, while others were executed by drawing and quartering.

When you visit here the first thing that you are likely to notice is the two huge trees that seem to be watching over the memorial stone that commemorates the lives lost on both sides.

The stone reads: ‘To the glory of God and in memory of all those who doing the right as they gave it fell in the battle of Sedgemoor 6th July 1685'

The raw emotion of this blood stained battlefield, turned mass burial site can still be felt and not surprisingly, there are spirits here too.

The local farmers have often reported seeing galloping horsemen racing across the field and also eerie disembodied voices urging them to come on over the River Carey!

A ghostly band of soldiers are said to haunt the area around King's Sedgemoor Drain, and some have reported the cries of “Come on over!” floating across the landscape.

Some have also claimed to have seen the shivering form of Monmouth making a cowardly retreat from the battle.

Perhaps one of the most haunting ghost stories of this place is that of the young girl who was forced to look on as her lover was executed after the opposing troops promised he would be spared if he could out run the horses, only to go back on their word when he did just that.

Her heart broken, the girl drowned herself in the river.

Since that time, her spirit has been seen accompanied by the sounds of “running feet, laboured breathing and galloping hooves”.