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The City of Puckington shares its name a mischievous sprite. Read on below and visit the links above to read Phil Woodland's account of his visit to the city, see the city itself, visit the old church and graveyard filled with dead Woodlands.  

• Remember Puck, the mischievous sprite in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream? 

What fools these mortals be!...
Midsummer Night's Dream 10
Artist: Arthur Rackham 1900

• Perhaps Puck lived among our relatives in Somerset.  In Somerset Place Names by Stephen Robinson we learn that Puckington, a town northeast of Ilminster, was “the hobgoblin enclosure,” from the old English puca and tun.  This was the property of Roger of Courseulles, who lived in Somerset at the time of William the Conqueror.
   

• What exactly is a hobgoblin?  From The New World Dictionary: “Hobgoblin:  1) an elf; goblin  2) a frightening apparition; bogy; bugbear
   

• You can read more about Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow (click on link).
   

• The astronomers who discovered the tenth known satellite of the planet Uranus named this new moon after this hobgoblin.
   

• Nothing to do with Hockey Pucks.