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About Pomfret, Vermont 
Windsor County
*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Pomfret's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
Most historians credit Benning Wentworth with having named the town in honor of Thomas Fermor, Baron Lempster (a corruption of Leominster) and Earl of Pomfret. Wentworth and Fermor were related by by marriage through the Wodehouse family, and Wentworth had named the town of Lemster, New Hampshire the same year. Those same historians seem to overlook that many of the grantees lived in Pomfret, Connecticut, where the Vermont town's first meetings were held. The Connecticut town derives its name from the English town of Pontefract (literally, "broken bridge"). In England, Pontefract is pronounced the same as the Vermont and Connecticut towns.
Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's
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Activities & Points of Interest
Goings-on in and near Pomfret Covered Bridge
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Contact Info Emergency Services (Statewide): 911
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Churches, Ministries, Charitables United Church of Christ : North Pomfret United Church of Christ |
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This is a basic geographic reference, intended to show relative location of adjacent towns. Directional accuracy is limited to 16 compass points. There isn't even the slightest suggestion that one can necessarily travel directly from one town to the next (as in "You can't get there from here").
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Utilities Notes about utilities:
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