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Place details
- Locality
- Taunton
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- Thornfalcon church.jpg
- UK place.static_image_alt
- White building with square tower.
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Church of the Holy Cross, Thornfalcon
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Thornfalcon
- UK place.population
- 119
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.unitary_england
- Somerset Council
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Somerset
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Taunton and Wellington
- UK place.post_town
- TAUNTON
- UK place.postcode_district
- TA3
- UK place.postcode_area
- TA
- UK place.dial_code
- 01823
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- ST285235
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Somerset West and Taunton
- Population
- 119
- Image
- Thornfalcon church.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01823
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- Commons category
- Thornfalcon
- OS grid reference
- ST285235
- P8168
- Lot
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Governance
- Transport
- References
- External links
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Thornfalcon is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated east of Taunton. The village has a population of 119. The parish includes the hamlet of Ash. The name comes from Thorn, and the personal name Fagun (now Falcon) which was the Norman surname of Sir Gilbert of Thorn, whose family were lords of the manor until the 14th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thornfalcon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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