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Map of Somerset, UK with Taunton Deane highlighted. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 155%: Date: 27 February 2011: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData. Coastline and administrative boundary data from Boundary-Line product. Lake data from Meridian 2 product. Inset derived from England location map.svg by Spischot ...
Taunton (/ ˈ t ɔː n t ən /) is the county town of Somerset, England.It is a market town and has a minster church.Its population in 2011 was 64,621. [2] Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, owned by the Bishops of Winchester, which was rebuilt as Taunton Castle by the Normans in the 12th century.
Huish's Grammar School, the boys' school, opened in 1875 in what are now the town's Municipal Buildings but by 1891 had moved to East Street. The girls' school opened in The Crescent in 1876 but the charity was unable to support both schools so the girls' school was funded by Bishop Fox's endowment from 1890. [1] It became a sixth form college ...
For local government purposes, since 1 April 2023, the village comes under the unitary authority of Somerset Council. Prior to this, it was part of the non-metropolitan district of Somerset West and Taunton (formed on 1 April 2019) and, before this, the district of Taunton Deane (established under the Local Government Act 1972).
In 1822, a Catholic chapel, known as St George's Chapel was built at the southern-end of the terrace, the first Catholic church built in Taunton since the Reformation. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The Catholic congregation moved out to a larger church in 1878 and the chapel was bought by the Freemasons , who converted it into a Masonic Lodge .
Bradford-on-Tone is a village and civil parish in Wellington, Somerset, England, situated on the River Tone 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of Taunton.The parish, which includes Tone Green and Hele, has a population of 622.
The school was badly damaged by the Parliamentarian forces commanded by Robert Blake in the Sieges of Taunton between September 1644 and July 1645 during the English Civil War. [2] One of the school's masters, James Upton , was appointed in 1706 at the instigation of Lord Poulett and built the school up to the point of being a leading ...
Langford Budville is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated near the River Tone 2 miles (3.2 km) north-west of Wellington, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) from Wiveliscombe and 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Taunton. The parish includes the hamlets of Bindon, Lower Chipley, Lower Wellisford, Ramsey and Runnington. The parish has a population of ...