Complex sentence: Penniman was an unincorporated town in northwestern York County, on the south bank of the York River six miles (10 km) northeast of Williamsburg in the Virginia Peninsula area of the Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia in the United States.
Split into simpler sentences: Penniman was an unincorporated town in northwestern York County, Virginia, on the south bank of the York River six miles (10 km) northeast of Williamsburg. This was on the Virginia Peninsula and near the Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia in the United States.