Taunton

Taunton ( ) is the county town of Somerset, England. It is a market town and has a minster church. 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. Parts of the inner ward house were turned into the Museum of Somerset and Somerset Military Museum. For the Second Cornish uprising of 1497, Perkin Warbeck brought an army of 6,000; most surrendered to Henry VII on 4 October 1497. On 20 June 1685, the Duke of Monmouth crowned himself King of England in Taunton in the fai

Comeytrowe is a south western suburb of Taunton and former civil parish, now in the parish Taunton in the county Somerset, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 5,463. The parish included the area Galmington.

river in Somerset, England

REDIRECT Taunton

World War II defensive line in south west England

Canal in south-west England

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 2010-2024