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id="toc-Public_parks-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Pride_Rainbow_Path" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pride_Rainbow_Path"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.3 Pride Rainbow Path </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pride_Rainbow_Path-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Transport" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Transport"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Transport </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Transport-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Transport subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Transport-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Railway" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Railway"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.1 Railway </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Railway-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Road" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Road"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.2 Road </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Road-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-2011_M5_crash" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2011_M5_crash"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.2.1 2011 M5 crash </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2011_M5_crash-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Buses_and_coaches" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Buses_and_coaches"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.3 Buses and coaches </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Buses_and_coaches-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Air" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Air"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.4 Air </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Air-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Trams" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Trams"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.5 Trams </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Trams-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Canal" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Canal"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.6 Canal </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Canal-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Education" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Education"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 Education </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Education-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Health_services" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Health_services"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 Health services </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Health_services-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Religious_sites" 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class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sport"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12 Sport </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sport-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notable_residents" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notable_residents"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 13 Notable residents </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notable_residents-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Twinning" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Twinning"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 14 Twinning </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Twinning-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 15 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 16 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 17 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label 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lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Taunton" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86" title="تاونتون – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="تاونتون" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Тонтан – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Тонтан" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%8A%D0%BD" title="Тоунтън – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Тоунтън" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton_(Anglaterra)" title="Taunton (Anglaterra) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Taunton (Anglaterra)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton_(kapital_sa_kondado_sa_Hiniusang_Gingharian)" title="Taunton (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Taunton (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cebuano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton" title="Taunton – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Taunton" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton" title="Taunton – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Taunton" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton" title="Taunton – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Taunton" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton" title="Taunton – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Taunton" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton" title="Taunton – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Taunton" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton" title="Taunton – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Taunton" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton" title="Taunton – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Taunton" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86" title="تاونتون – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="تاونتون" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton" title="Taunton – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Taunton" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton" title="Taunton – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Taunton" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%86%A4%ED%84%B4_(%EC%84%9C%EB%A8%B8%EC%8B%AF%EC%A3%BC)" title="톤턴 (서머싯주) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="톤턴 (서머싯주)" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%A8" title="टाउंटन – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="टाउंटन" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton,_Inggris" title="Taunton, Inggris – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Taunton, Inggris" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton" title="Taunton – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Taunton" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingue</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD" title="Тонтон – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Тонтон" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ирон</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton" title="Taunton – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Taunton" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton" title="Taunton – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Taunton" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ladin</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantonia" title="Tantonia – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Tantonia" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontona" title="Tontona – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Tontona" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%97%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%BA" title="ടൗന്റൺ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ടൗന്റൺ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%81%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%A8" title="टाँटन – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="टाँटन" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target">मराठी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton_(Engeland)" title="Taunton (Engeland) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Taunton (Engeland)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3" title="トーントン – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="トーントン" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton" title="Taunton – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Taunton" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nordfriisk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton_(England)" title="Taunton (England) – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Taunton (England)" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton" title="Taunton – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Taunton" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%9F%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%8A%E0%A8%82%E0%A8%9F%E0%A8%A8" title="ਟਾਊਂਟਨ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਟਾਊਂਟਨ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%B9%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%B9%D9%86" title="ٹانٹن – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="ٹانٹن" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">پنجابی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton" title="Taunton – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Taunton" data-language-autonym="Polski" 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center"><div class="multiimageinner" style="width:242px;max-width:242px;border:none"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:240px;max-width:240px"><div style="height:168px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:St._Mary%27s,_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1217534.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/St._Mary%27s%2C_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1217534.jpg/238px-St._Mary%27s%2C_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1217534.jpg" decoding="async" width="238" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/St._Mary%27s%2C_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1217534.jpg/357px-St._Mary%27s%2C_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1217534.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/St._Mary%27s%2C_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1217534.jpg/476px-St._Mary%27s%2C_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1217534.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="454" /></a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:112px;max-width:112px"><div style="height:82px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Old_Grammar_School,_Corporation_Street,_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1235403.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/The_Old_Grammar_School%2C_Corporation_Street%2C_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1235403.jpg/110px-The_Old_Grammar_School%2C_Corporation_Street%2C_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1235403.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="83" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/The_Old_Grammar_School%2C_Corporation_Street%2C_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1235403.jpg/165px-The_Old_Grammar_School%2C_Corporation_Street%2C_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1235403.jpg 1.5x, 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style="height:82px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:County_Hall,_Taunton_(geograph_4248868).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/County_Hall%2C_Taunton_%28geograph_4248868%29.jpg/111px-County_Hall%2C_Taunton_%28geograph_4248868%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="111" height="82" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/County_Hall%2C_Taunton_%28geograph_4248868%29.jpg/167px-County_Hall%2C_Taunton_%28geograph_4248868%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/County_Hall%2C_Taunton_%28geograph_4248868%29.jpg/222px-County_Hall%2C_Taunton_%28geograph_4248868%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1704" /></a></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div>From the top to bottom-right, View of Taunton with the <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Minster" title="Taunton Minster">Minster</a> on the right, <a href="/wiki/Municipal_Buildings,_Taunton" title="Municipal Buildings, Taunton">Municipal Buildings</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Crescent,_Taunton" title="The Crescent, Taunton">The Crescent</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vivary_Park" title="Vivary Park">Vivary Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Shire_Hall" title="Taunton Shire Hall">Shire Hall</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv>div{display:inline;padding:1px}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:left}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pv>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pl>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pr>div{background:#fff!important;color:#000!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .locmap{filter:grayscale(0.6)}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .locmap{filter:grayscale(0.6)}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pv>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pl>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pr>div{background:white!important;color:#000!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}</style><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:240px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:240px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:240px"><a href="/wiki/File:Somerset_UK_location_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Taunton is located in Somerset"><img alt="Taunton is located in Somerset" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Somerset_UK_location_map.svg/240px-Somerset_UK_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="240" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Somerset_UK_location_map.svg/360px-Somerset_UK_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Somerset_UK_location_map.svg/480px-Somerset_UK_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1425" data-file-height="901" /></a><div class="od notheme" style="top:70.8%;left:46.739%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><img alt="Taunton" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:4px"><div>Taunton</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location within <a href="/wiki/Somerset" title="Somerset">Somerset</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population</th><td class="infobox-data">60,479 (2011 census)<a href="#cite_note-nomisweb.co.uk-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid" title="Ordnance Survey National Grid">OS grid reference</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bing.com/maps/?mkt=en-gb&v=2&cp=51.019170~-3.102001&lvl=13&sp=Point.51.019170_-3.102001_Taunton&sty=s&style=s">ST228250</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish">Civil parish</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Taunton</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_England" title="Districts of England">Unitary authority</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Somerset_Council" title="Somerset Council">Somerset Council</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England" title="Ceremonial counties of England">Ceremonial county</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Somerset" title="Somerset">Somerset</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_England" title="Regions of England">Region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/South_West_England" title="South West England">South West</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow adr"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of sovereign states">Sovereign state</a></th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Post_town" title="Post town">Post town</a></th><td class="infobox-data">TAUNTON</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Postcodes in the United Kingdom">Postcode district</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/TA_postcode_area" title="TA postcode area">TA1, TA2, TA3</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom">Dialling code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">01823</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agencies_in_the_United_Kingdom,_Crown_Dependencies_and_British_Overseas_Territories" title="List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories">Police</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Avon_and_Somerset_Constabulary" class="mw-redirect" title="Avon and Somerset Constabulary">Avon and Somerset</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Fire_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Fire services in the United Kingdom">Fire</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Devon_and_Somerset_Fire_and_Rescue_Service" title="Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service">Devon and Somerset</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Emergency_medical_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom">Ambulance</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/South_Western_Ambulance_Service" title="South Western Ambulance Service">South Western</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Constituencies_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom">UK Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Taunton_and_Wellington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Taunton and Wellington (UK Parliament constituency)">Taunton and Wellington</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <dl><dt><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style>List of places</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_locations" title="List of United Kingdom locations">UK</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_England" title="List of places in England">England</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_Somerset" title="List of places in Somerset">Somerset</a></dd></dl></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Taunton&params=51.019_N_3.1_W_type:town(60,000)_region:GB-SOM">51°01′08″N 3°06′00″W / 51.019°N 3.100°W / 51.019; -3.100</a></td></tr></tbody></table> Taunton (<a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈtɔːntən/</a>) is the <a href="/wiki/County_town" title="County town">county town</a> of <a href="/wiki/Somerset" title="Somerset">Somerset</a>, England. It is a <a href="/wiki/Market_town" title="Market town">market town</a> and has a <a href="/wiki/Minster_(church)" title="Minster (church)">minster church</a>. Its population in 2011 was 64,621.<a href="#cite_note-2011census-2">[2]</a> Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century <a href="/wiki/Priory" title="Priory">monastic foundation</a>, owned by the <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Winchester" title="Bishop of Winchester">Bishops of Winchester</a>, which was rebuilt as <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Castle" title="Taunton Castle">Taunton Castle</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Normans" title="Normans">Normans</a> in the 12th century. Parts of the inner ward house were turned into the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Somerset" title="Museum of Somerset">Museum of Somerset</a> and Somerset Military Museum. For the <a href="/wiki/Second_Cornish_uprising_of_1497" title="Second Cornish uprising of 1497">Second Cornish uprising of 1497</a>, <a href="/wiki/Perkin_Warbeck" title="Perkin Warbeck">Perkin Warbeck</a> brought an army of 6,000; most surrendered to Henry VII on 4 October 1497.<a href="#cite_note-bush-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-:0-4">[4]</a> On 20 June 1685 in Taunton the <a href="/wiki/James_Scott,_1st_Duke_of_Monmouth" title="James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth">Duke of Monmouth</a> crowned himself King of England in a rebellion, defeated at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sedgemoor" title="Battle of Sedgemoor">Battle of Sedgemoor</a>. <a href="/wiki/Judge_Jeffreys" class="mw-redirect" title="Judge Jeffreys">Judge Jeffreys</a> led the <a href="/wiki/Bloody_Assizes" title="Bloody Assizes">Bloody Assizes</a> in the Castle's Great Hall.<a href="#cite_note-britex-5">[5]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Grand_Western_Canal" title="Grand Western Canal">Grand Western Canal</a> reached Taunton in 1839 and the <a href="/wiki/Bristol_and_Exeter_Railway" title="Bristol and Exeter Railway">Bristol and Exeter Railway</a> in 1842. Today it hosts <a href="/wiki/Musgrove_Park_Hospital" title="Musgrove Park Hospital">Musgrove Park Hospital</a>, <a href="/wiki/Somerset_County_Cricket_Club" title="Somerset County Cricket Club">Somerset County Cricket Club</a>, is the base of <a href="/wiki/40_Commando" title="40 Commando">40 Commando</a>, <a href="/wiki/Royal_Marines" title="Royal Marines">Royal Marines</a>, and is home to the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Hydrographic_Office" title="United Kingdom Hydrographic Office">United Kingdom Hydrographic Office</a> on Admiralty Way.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> The popular <a href="/wiki/Taunton_flower_show" class="mw-redirect" title="Taunton flower show">Taunton flower show</a> has been held in <a href="/wiki/Vivary_Park" title="Vivary Park">Vivary Park</a> since 1866, and on 13 March 2022, <a href="/wiki/St_Mary_Magdalene,_Taunton" class="mw-redirect" title="St Mary Magdalene, Taunton">St Mary Magdalene</a> parish church was elevated to the status of <a href="/wiki/St_Mary_Magdalene,_Taunton" class="mw-redirect" title="St Mary Magdalene, Taunton">Taunton Minster</a>.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Taunton.somerset.750pix.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Street scene showing roads and shops around a stone cross." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Taunton.somerset.750pix.jpg/220px-Taunton.somerset.750pix.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Taunton.somerset.750pix.jpg/330px-Taunton.somerset.750pix.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Taunton.somerset.750pix.jpg/440px-Taunton.somerset.750pix.jpg 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="555" /></a><figcaption>The War Memorial and town centre, Taunton</figcaption></figure> The town name derives from "Town on the <a href="/wiki/River_Tone" title="River Tone">River Tone</a>" or Tone Town.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-bush-3">[3]</a> <a href="/wiki/Cambria_Farm" title="Cambria Farm">Cambria Farm</a>, which now hosts a <a href="/wiki/Park_and_ride" title="Park and ride">park and ride</a> close to the <a href="/wiki/M5_motorway" title="M5 motorway">M5 motorway</a> Junction 25, was the site of <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age" title="Bronze Age">Bronze</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a> settlement and a <a href="/wiki/Roman_Britain" title="Roman Britain">Roman</a> farm.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> There was a <a href="/wiki/Romano-British" class="mw-redirect" title="Romano-British">Romano-British</a> village near the suburb of Holway.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> Taunton was important in <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxons" title="Anglo-Saxons">Anglo-Saxon</a> times<a href="#cite_note-briefhist-11">[11]</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Burh" title="Burh">burh</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Mint_(coin)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mint (coin)">mint</a>.<a href="#cite_note-bush-3">[3]</a> King <a href="/wiki/Ine_of_Wessex" title="Ine of Wessex">Ine of Wessex</a> threw up an earthen castle about 700, but it was levelled in 722 by his queen, <a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelburg_of_Wessex" title="Æthelburg of Wessex">Æthelburg of Wessex</a>, to prevent seizure by rebels.<a href="#cite_note-bush-3">[3]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Taunton_Cross.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Taunton_Cross.jpg/220px-Taunton_Cross.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="262" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Taunton_Cross.jpg/330px-Taunton_Cross.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Taunton_Cross.jpg/440px-Taunton_Cross.jpg 2x" data-file-width="712" data-file-height="849" /></a><figcaption>Taunton Cross c. 1770</figcaption></figure> A monastery was founded before 904.<a href="#cite_note-britannia-12">[12]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Winchester" title="Bishop of Winchester">bishops of Winchester</a> owned the manor, and obtained the first charter for their "men of Taunton" from <a href="/wiki/Edward_the_Elder" title="Edward the Elder">King Edward</a> in 904, freeing them from all royal and county tribute. Some time before Domesday, Taunton became a borough with privileges and a population of some 1,500,<a href="#cite_note-briefhist-11">[11]</a> including 64 <a href="/wiki/Burgess_(word)" class="mw-redirect" title="Burgess (word)">burgesses</a><a href="#cite_note-bush-3">[3]</a> governed by a <a href="/wiki/Portreeve" title="Portreeve">portreeve</a> appointed by the bishops. <a href="/wiki/Somerton,_Somerset" title="Somerton, Somerset">Somerton</a> took over from <a href="/wiki/Ilchester" title="Ilchester">Ilchester</a> as <a href="/wiki/County_town" title="County town">county town</a> in the late 13th century,<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> but declined; the county-town status passed to Taunton about 1366.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> Between 1209 and 1311 the Bishop of Winchester's manor of Taunton expanded two-and-a-half times.<a href="#cite_note-havinden-15">[15]</a> The parishes of Staplegrove, Wilton and Taunton were part of <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Deane_(hundred)" class="mw-redirect" title="Taunton Deane (hundred)">Taunton Deane</a> <a href="/wiki/Hundred_(county_subdivision)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hundred (county subdivision)">hundred</a>.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> In 1451, during the <a href="/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses" title="Wars of the Roses">Wars of the Roses</a>, Taunton saw a skirmish between the <a href="/wiki/Thomas_de_Courtenay,_13th_Earl_of_Devon" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas de Courtenay, 13th Earl of Devon">Earl of Devon</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Baron_Bonville" title="Baron Bonville">Baron Bonville</a>.<a href="#cite_note-bush-3">[3]</a> <a href="/wiki/Margaret_of_Anjou" title="Margaret of Anjou">Queen Margaret</a> and her troops passed through in 1471 to defeat at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tewkesbury" title="Battle of Tewkesbury">Battle of Tewkesbury</a>.<a href="#cite_note-bush-3">[3]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/Second_Cornish_uprising_of_1497" title="Second Cornish uprising of 1497">Second Cornish uprising of 1497</a> most Cornish gentry supported <a href="/wiki/Perkin_Warbeck" title="Perkin Warbeck">Perkin Warbeck</a>'s cause and on 17 September a Cornish army some 6,000 strong entered <a href="/wiki/Exeter" title="Exeter">Exeter</a> before advancing on Taunton.<a href="#cite_note-bush-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-:0-4">[4]</a> <a href="/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England" title="Henry VII of England">Henry VII</a> sent his chief general, <a href="/wiki/Giles_Daubeney,_1st_Baron_Daubeney" title="Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney">Giles, Lord Daubeney</a>, to attack the Cornish. When Warbeck heard that the King's scouts were at <a href="/wiki/Glastonbury" title="Glastonbury">Glastonbury</a> he panicked and deserted his army. On 4 October 1497, Henry VII reached Taunton, where he received the surrender of the remaining Cornish army. Ringleaders were executed and others fined a total of £13,000.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Castle" title="Taunton Castle">Taunton Castle</a> changed hands several times in the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">Civil War</a> of 1642–1645, as did the town.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> During the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Taunton" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of Taunton">Siege of Taunton</a> it was defended by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Blake_(admiral)" title="Robert Blake (admiral)">Robert Blake</a> from July 1644 to July 1645, and suffered destruction of many medieval and Tudor buildings.<a href="#cite_note-bush-3">[3]</a> On 20 June 1685, the <a href="/wiki/James_Scott,_1st_Duke_of_Monmouth" title="James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth">Duke of Monmouth</a> crowned himself King of England at Taunton during the <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Rebellion" title="Monmouth Rebellion">Monmouth Rebellion</a>. In the autumn of that year <a href="/wiki/Judge_Jeffreys" class="mw-redirect" title="Judge Jeffreys">Judge Jeffreys</a> lived in the town during the <a href="/wiki/Bloody_Assizes" title="Bloody Assizes">Bloody Assizes</a> that followed the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sedgemoor" title="Battle of Sedgemoor">Battle of Sedgemoor</a>.<a href="#cite_note-britex-5">[5]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Taunton_road_map1948.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="An old map showing the main roads and the river in the town." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Taunton_road_map1948.jpg/220px-Taunton_road_map1948.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="199" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Taunton_road_map1948.jpg/330px-Taunton_road_map1948.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Taunton_road_map1948.jpg/440px-Taunton_road_map1948.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1241" data-file-height="1121" /></a><figcaption>A road map of Taunton from 1948</figcaption></figure> The town lacked a charter of incorporation until 1627.<a href="#cite_note-briefhist-11">[11]</a> This was renewed in 1677, but lapsed in 1792 due to vacancies in the corporate body, and was not reincorporated until 1877. The medieval fairs and markets (a weekly market remains) were celebrated for the sale of woollen cloth called "Tauntons" made in the town. On the decline of the woollen industry in the west of England, silk-weaving was introduced at the end of the 18th century.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> In 1839 the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Western_Canal" title="Grand Western Canal">Grand Western Canal</a> reached Taunton, aiding southward trade,<a href="#cite_note-harris-20">[20]</a> which was enhanced by the arrival of the railway in 1842.<a href="#cite_note-bush-3">[3]</a> A permanent military presence came to <a href="/wiki/Jellalabad_Barracks,_Taunton" title="Jellalabad Barracks, Taunton">Jellalabad Barracks</a> in 1881.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> In the Second World War, the <a href="/wiki/Bridgwater_and_Taunton_Canal" title="Bridgwater and Taunton Canal">Bridgwater and Taunton Canal</a> formed part of the <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Stop_Line" title="Taunton Stop Line">Taunton Stop Line</a>, set to curb any advance of a German invasion. <a href="/wiki/British_anti-invasion_preparations_of_World_War_II" class="mw-redirect" title="British anti-invasion preparations of World War II">Pillboxes</a> can still be seen along its length.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> <a href="/wiki/Taunton_sleeping_car_fire" title="Taunton sleeping car fire">A fire</a> aboard a <a href="/wiki/Penzance_railway_station" title="Penzance railway station">Penzance</a> to London <a href="/wiki/Sleeping_car" title="Sleeping car">sleeping car</a> train approaching Taunton in 1978 killed 12 passengers and injured 15 others. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Regeneration">Regeneration</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Regeneration">edit</a>]</div> Taunton was rated "strategically important" in the government's Regional Spatial Strategy, allowing <a href="/wiki/Somerset_County_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Somerset County Council">Somerset County Council</a> to receive funding for large-scale regeneration projects.<a href="#cite_note-MSBC-23">[23]</a> In 2006, the council revealed plans dubbed "Project Taunton". This would see regeneration of the areas of Firepool, Tangier, the retail town centre, the cultural quarter, and the River Tone, to sustain Taunton as business hub in the South West.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:New_bridge_Tangier_Taunton.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/New_bridge_Tangier_Taunton.JPG/220px-New_bridge_Tangier_Taunton.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/New_bridge_Tangier_Taunton.JPG/330px-New_bridge_Tangier_Taunton.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/New_bridge_Tangier_Taunton.JPG/440px-New_bridge_Tangier_Taunton.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4752" data-file-height="3168" /></a><figcaption>Tangier Way bridge under construction in 2011</figcaption></figure> The Firepool area, just north of the town centre by the main railway station, includes vacant or undeveloped land. The council is promoting sustainable, high-quality, employment-led <a href="/wiki/Mixed-use_development" title="Mixed-use development">mixed-use development</a> to attract 3,000 new jobs and 500 new homes.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> In Tangier, a brownfield area between <a href="/wiki/Bridgwater_and_Taunton_College" title="Bridgwater and Taunton College">Bridgwater and Taunton College</a> and the bus station, the project proposed to build small offices and more riverside housing.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> The "Cultural Quarter" is the area along the river between Firepool and Tangier.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> The plans are to extend riverside retail and attract smaller, boutique businesses such as those found at Riverside.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> Plans for the town centre include more pedestrianisation and greater sizes and numbers of retail units.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> Several sites along the River Tone are set for renovation. Firepool Weir lock, long silted up, was to be dredged in 2011<a href="#cite_note-tone-30">[30]</a> to allow boats to pass from the navigable section of the Tone through Taunton to the <a href="/wiki/Bridgwater_and_Taunton_Canal" title="Bridgwater and Taunton Canal">Bridgwater and Taunton Canal</a>. Goodland Gardens received a makeover and a new café, The Shed, opened. Projects to develop Somerset Square (a paved area next to the <a href="/wiki/Brewhouse_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Brewhouse Theatre">Brewhouse Theatre</a>) and Longrun Meadow (a country park near Bridgwater & Taunton College) have been put forward.<a href="#cite_note-tone-30">[30]</a> Traffic congestion was identified as an obstacle to further economic growth.<a href="#cite_note-MSBC-23">[23]</a> Part of the strategy was a new road infrastructure consisting of a £7.5 million link road to ease traffic in the town centre (Taunton's "Third Way"), completed in 2011,<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> and a Northern Inner Distributor Road linking Staplegrove Road, the station and Priory Avenue at a planned cost of £21 million, opened in 2017.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Governance">edit</a>]</div> Taunton is governed by a <a href="/wiki/Parish_council_(England)" title="Parish council (England)">parish/town council</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authorities_of_England" title="Unitary authorities of England">unitary authority</a> of <a href="/wiki/Somerset_Council" title="Somerset Council">Somerset Council</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Parish_/_Town_Council">Parish / Town Council</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Parish / Town Council">edit</a>]</div> A large part of the town was <a href="/wiki/Unparished_area" title="Unparished area">unparished</a> from the 1974 local government reorganisation until 1 April 2023, when a new Parish Council came into being following a Community Governance Review held by Somerset West and Taunton Council.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> While the town was unparished, <a href="/wiki/Charter_Trustees" class="mw-redirect" title="Charter Trustees">Charter Trustees</a> made up of the district councillors representing wards in the unparished area elected a <a href="/wiki/Mayor" title="Mayor">Mayor</a> and Deputy Mayor.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> The first elections to the new parish council were held on 4 May 2023 with 19 <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal Democrat">Liberal Democrat</a> councillors and one <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> councillor being elected to represent 14 wards. The council is expected to formally resolve to adopt the style of a Town Council at its first meeting.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Borough_Council">Borough Council</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Borough Council">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Old_Grammar_School,_Corporation_Street,_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1235403.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/The_Old_Grammar_School%2C_Corporation_Street%2C_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1235403.jpg/220px-The_Old_Grammar_School%2C_Corporation_Street%2C_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1235403.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/The_Old_Grammar_School%2C_Corporation_Street%2C_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1235403.jpg/330px-The_Old_Grammar_School%2C_Corporation_Street%2C_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1235403.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/The_Old_Grammar_School%2C_Corporation_Street%2C_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1235403.jpg/440px-The_Old_Grammar_School%2C_Corporation_Street%2C_Taunton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1235403.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>The old <a href="/wiki/Municipal_Buildings,_Taunton" title="Municipal Buildings, Taunton">Municipal Buildings</a></figcaption></figure> Taunton was the main settlement and centre of the <a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_district" title="Non-metropolitan district">local government district</a> of <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Deane" title="Taunton Deane">Taunton Deane</a>. The district, formed on 1 April 1974 under the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1972" title="Local Government Act 1972">Local Government Act 1972</a>, by merging the <a href="/wiki/Municipal_borough" title="Municipal borough">municipal borough</a> of Taunton, <a href="/wiki/Wellington,_Somerset" title="Wellington, Somerset">Wellington</a> <a href="/wiki/Urban_district_(Great_Britain_and_Ireland)" class="mw-redirect" title="Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)">urban district</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Rural_District" title="Taunton Rural District">Taunton Rural District</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wellington_Rural_District_(Somerset)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wellington Rural District (Somerset)">Wellington Rural District</a>, was granted <a href="/wiki/Borough_status_in_England_and_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Borough status in England and Wales">borough status</a> in 1975, perpetuating the mayoralty of Taunton.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> The district was named as an alternate form of the <a href="/wiki/Taunton_(hundred)" class="mw-redirect" title="Taunton (hundred)">Taunton hundred</a>. Taunton Deane Council, once based at the <a href="/wiki/Municipal_Buildings,_Taunton" title="Municipal Buildings, Taunton">Municipal Buildings</a> in Corporation Street,<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> moved to modern facilities at Deane House on Belvedere Road in spring 1987.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> Taunton Deane merged with <a href="/wiki/West_Somerset" title="West Somerset">West Somerset</a> to form <a href="/wiki/Somerset_West_and_Taunton" title="Somerset West and Taunton">Somerset West and Taunton</a> in 2019,<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a><a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> and was abolished on 1 April 2023 when Somerset Council took over.<a href="#cite_note-unitary-43">[43]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Former_County_Council">Former County Council</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Former County Council">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:County_Hall,_Taunton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Red brick building with a curved façade seen across roads." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/County_Hall%2C_Taunton.jpg/220px-County_Hall%2C_Taunton.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/County_Hall%2C_Taunton.jpg/330px-County_Hall%2C_Taunton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/County_Hall%2C_Taunton.jpg/440px-County_Hall%2C_Taunton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="568" data-file-height="425" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/County_Hall,_Taunton" title="County Hall, Taunton">County Hall</a>, The Crescent</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Somerset_County_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Somerset County Council">Somerset County Council</a>, which was based at <a href="/wiki/County_Hall,_Taunton" title="County Hall, Taunton">County Hall</a> in Taunton from 1974-2023, consisted of 55 councillors. The town has broadly six electoral divisions, each of which had a single county councillor: Taunton North; Taunton East; Taunton South; Bishop’s Hull & Taunton West; Comeytrowe & Trull, Monkton & North Curry (which includes rural areas). On 1 April 2023, Somerset's county council and four district councils were replaced by a single <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authorities_of_England" title="Unitary authorities of England">unitary authority</a> called <a href="/wiki/Somerset_Council" title="Somerset Council">Somerset Council</a> with elections for the new authority's 110 councillors (two per electoral division) having taken place on 5 May 2022.<a href="#cite_note-unitary-43">[43]</a><a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Parliament">Parliament</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Parliament">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Taunton_and_Wellington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Taunton and Wellington (UK Parliament constituency)">Taunton and Wellington</a> is a <a href="/wiki/County_constituency" class="mw-redirect" title="County constituency">county constituency</a> of the <a href="/wiki/British_House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="British House of Commons">House of Commons</a>. It is based on the town, but extends to <a href="/wiki/Wellington,_Somerset" title="Wellington, Somerset">Wellington</a>. The current MP is <a href="/wiki/Gideon_Amos" title="Gideon Amos">Gideon Amos</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a>.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Geography">edit</a>]</div> Taunton lies on the <a href="/wiki/River_Tone" title="River Tone">River Tone</a> between the <a href="/wiki/Quantock_Hills" title="Quantock Hills">Quantock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blackdown_Hills_National_Landscape" class="mw-redirect" title="Blackdown Hills National Landscape">Blackdown</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brendon_Hills" title="Brendon Hills">Brendon</a> hills. The area is known as the Vale of Taunton. 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margin:0; text-align:center;"><tbody><tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Watchet" title="Watchet">Watchet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minehead" title="Minehead">Minehead</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bridgwater" title="Bridgwater">Bridgwater</a>, <a href="/wiki/Weston-super-Mare" title="Weston-super-Mare">Weston-super-Mare</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardiff" title="Cardiff">Cardiff</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Glastonbury" title="Glastonbury">Glastonbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wells,_Somerset" title="Wells, Somerset">Wells</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bath,_Somerset" title="Bath, Somerset">Bath</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bristol" title="Bristol">Bristol</a></td> </tr><tr> <td></td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pfeil_oben.svg/14px-Pfeil_oben.svg.png" decoding="async" width="14" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pfeil_oben.svg/21px-Pfeil_oben.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pfeil_oben.svg/28px-Pfeil_oben.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="600" /></td> <td></td> </tr><tr> <td style="width:33%"><a href="/wiki/Wiveliscombe" title="Wiveliscombe">Wiveliscombe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dulverton" title="Dulverton">Dulverton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barnstaple" title="Barnstaple">Barnstaple</a></td> <td style="width:33%;"> <div style="white-space:nowrap;"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pfeil_links.svg/17px-Pfeil_links.svg.png" decoding="async" width="17" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pfeil_links.svg/25px-Pfeil_links.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pfeil_links.svg/34px-Pfeil_links.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="500" />Taunton<img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Pfeil_rechts.svg/17px-Pfeil_rechts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="17" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Pfeil_rechts.svg/25px-Pfeil_rechts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Pfeil_rechts.svg/34px-Pfeil_rechts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="500" /></div> </td> <td style="width:33%"><a href="/wiki/Langport" title="Langport">Langport</a>, <a href="/wiki/Somerton,_Somerset" title="Somerton, Somerset">Somerton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yeovil" title="Yeovil">Yeovil</a></td> </tr><tr> <td></td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/14px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png" decoding="async" width="14" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/21px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/28px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="600" /></td> <td></td> </tr><tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Wellington,_Somerset" title="Wellington, Somerset">Wellington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tiverton,_Devon" title="Tiverton, Devon">Tiverton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Exeter" title="Exeter">Exeter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plymouth" title="Plymouth">Plymouth</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Honiton" title="Honiton">Honiton</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ilminster" title="Ilminster">Ilminster</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chard,_Somerset" title="Chard, Somerset">Chard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crewkerne" title="Crewkerne">Crewkerne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Weymouth,_Dorset" title="Weymouth, Dorset">Weymouth</a></td> </tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> Taunton is 38 miles (61 km) south-west of <a href="/wiki/Bristol" title="Bristol">Bristol</a>, 28 miles (45 km) north-east of <a href="/wiki/Exeter" title="Exeter">Exeter</a>, 63 miles (101 km) north-east of Plymouth and 40 miles (64 km) north-west of <a href="/wiki/Weymouth,_Dorset" title="Weymouth, Dorset">Weymouth</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Geology">Geology</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Geology">edit</a>]</div> The Taunton area has <a href="/wiki/Permian" title="Permian">Permian</a> red sandstones and <a href="/wiki/Breccia" title="Breccia">breccia</a> outcrop 295–250 million years old. Rocks of <a href="/wiki/Triassic" title="Triassic">Triassic</a> age (248–204 million years ago) underlie much of Somerset's moors and levels.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nature_reserves">Nature reserves</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Nature reserves">edit</a>]</div> The several <a href="/wiki/Local_nature_reserve" title="Local nature reserve">local nature reserves</a> in and around Taunton are protected under Section 21 of the <a href="/wiki/National_Parks_and_Access_to_the_Countryside_Act_1949" title="National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949">National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949</a>. South Taunton Streams is an urban wetland.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> The northern suburbs include the Children's Wood riverside reserve, a movement corridor for animals such as <a href="/wiki/Eurasian_otter" title="Eurasian otter">otters</a> along the banks of the Tone. Birds include the <a href="/wiki/Common_kingfisher" title="Common kingfisher">kingfisher</a>, <a href="/wiki/White-throated_dipper" title="White-throated dipper">dipper</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grey_wagtail" title="Grey wagtail">grey wagtail</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mute_swan" title="Mute swan">mute swan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grey_heron" title="Grey heron">grey heron</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eurasian_reed_warbler" class="mw-redirect" title="Eurasian reed warbler">reed warbler</a> and butterflies the <a href="/wiki/Small_skipper" title="Small skipper">small</a> and <a href="/wiki/Large_skipper" title="Large skipper">large skipper</a>, <a href="/wiki/Melanargia_galathea" title="Melanargia galathea">marbled white</a>, <a href="/wiki/Small_heath_(butterfly)" title="Small heath (butterfly)">small heath</a> and <a href="/wiki/Small_copper" class="mw-redirect" title="Small copper">small copper</a>, along with <a href="/wiki/Dragonflies" class="mw-redirect" title="Dragonflies">dragonflies</a> and <a href="/wiki/Damselflies" class="mw-redirect" title="Damselflies">damselflies</a>.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> Weirfield Riverside, a nature reserve along the <a href="/wiki/River_Tone" title="River Tone">River Tone</a>, has <a href="/wiki/Alder" title="Alder">alder</a> and <a href="/wiki/Willow" title="Willow">willow</a> woodland, bramble, scrub and rough grassland. The wetter, flood-prone areas feature <a href="/wiki/Oenanthe_crocata" title="Oenanthe crocata">hemlock water-dropwort</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Iris_pseudacorus" title="Iris pseudacorus">yellow flag</a>.<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> Silk Mills Park and Ride offer landscaping and ponds in three areas by the Tone. The woodland and grassland support aquatic and marginal vegetation,<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> with various birds, bats, reptiles and <a href="/wiki/Invertebrate" title="Invertebrate">invertebrates</a>.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> Frieze Hill Community Orchard has turned from <a href="/wiki/Allotment_(gardening)" title="Allotment (gardening)">allotments</a> to rough grassland and <a href="/wiki/Orchard" title="Orchard">orchard</a>. Among the apples grown are <a href="/wiki/Kingston_Black_Apple" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingston Black Apple">Kingston Black</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yarlington_Mill" title="Yarlington Mill">Yarlington Mill</a>.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Climate">edit</a>]</div> Like most of <a href="/wiki/South_West_England" title="South West England">South West England</a>, Taunton has a temperate climate, wetter and milder than the rest of the country.<a href="#cite_note-weather-53">[53]</a> The annual mean temperature is about 10 °C (50.0 °F). <a href="/wiki/Temperateness" class="mw-redirect" title="Temperateness">Seasonal temperature variation</a> is less extreme because of the adjacent sea. The summer months of July and August have mean daily maxima of about 21 °C (69.8 °F). In winter, mean minimum temperatures of 1 °C (33.8 °F) or 2 °C (35.6 °F) are common.<a href="#cite_note-weather-53">[53]</a> In the summer the <a href="/wiki/Azores" title="Azores">Azores</a> high pressure affects the south-west of England, but <a href="/wiki/Convective" class="mw-redirect" title="Convective">convective</a> cloud sometimes forms inland, reducing the sunshine hours. Annual sunshine rates are slightly under the regional average of 1,600 hours.<a href="#cite_note-weather-53">[53]</a> Most of the rainfall in the south-west is caused by <a href="/wiki/Low-pressure_area" title="Low-pressure area">Atlantic depressions</a> or by <a href="/wiki/Convection" title="Convection">convection</a> – in autumn and winter by the former, which are then at their most active. In summer, much rainfall results from the sun heating the ground, leading to convection, showers and thunderstorms. Average rainfall is about 700 mm (28 in). Some 8–15 days of snowfall are typical. November to March have the highest mean winds and June to August the lightest. The prevailing wind direction is from the south-west.<a href="#cite_note-weather-53">[53]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demography">Demography</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Demography">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable floatright" style="margin-left: 1em; width: 30em;"> <caption>Population profile<a href="#cite_note-BANEScensus-54">[54]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2001" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2001">UK Census 2001</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/Taunton_Deane" title="Taunton Deane">Taunton Deane</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/South_West_England" title="South West England">South West England</a></th> <th>England </th></tr> <tr> <td>Total population</td> <td>102,299</td> <td>4,928,434</td> <td>49,138,831 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Foreign born</td> <td>4.1%</td> <td>9.4%</td> <td>9.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td>White</td> <td>98.4%</td> <td>97.7%</td> <td>91% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Asian</td> <td>0.4%</td> <td>0.7%</td> <td>4.6% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Black</td> <td>0.2%</td> <td>0.4%</td> <td>2.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Christian</td> <td>75.9%</td> <td>74.0%</td> <td>72% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Muslim</td> <td>0.3%</td> <td>0.5%</td> <td>3.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Hindu</td> <td>0.1%</td> <td>0.2%</td> <td>1.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td>No religion</td> <td>15.7%</td> <td>16.8%</td> <td>15% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Over 75 years old</td> <td>9.5%</td> <td>9.3%</td> <td>7.5% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Unemployed</td> <td>2.4%</td> <td>2.6%</td> <td>3.3% </td></tr></tbody></table> The town of Taunton (which for population estimates includes the <a href="/wiki/Unparished_area" title="Unparished area">unparished area</a> or former <a href="/wiki/Municipal_borough" title="Municipal borough">municipal borough</a> plus the neighbouring parishes of <a href="/wiki/Bishop%27s_Hull" title="Bishop's Hull">Bishop's Hull</a>, <a href="/wiki/Comeytrowe" title="Comeytrowe">Comeytrowe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norton_Fitzwarren" title="Norton Fitzwarren">Norton Fitzwarren</a>, Staplegrove, <a href="/wiki/Trull" title="Trull">Trull</a> and <a href="/wiki/West_Monkton" title="West Monkton">West Monkton</a>) had an estimated population of 61,400 in 2001.<a href="#cite_note-pop-55">[55]</a> Taunton includes Holway, once a village in its own right as one of the Five <a href="/wiki/Hundred_(country_subdivision)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hundred (country subdivision)">Hundreds</a> of Taunton Deane, the Infaring division or district of three districts that made up Taunton Deane.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> Taunton is the largest town in the Somerset shire county and forms part of the larger <a href="/wiki/Borough_status_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Borough status in the United Kingdom">borough</a> of Taunton Deane, which includes the town of <a href="/wiki/Wellington,_Somerset" title="Wellington, Somerset">Wellington</a> and surrounding villages. This had an estimated population of 109,883 in 2010.<a href="#cite_note-inform.sine.org.uk-57">[57]</a> The figures here are for the Taunton Deane area. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236656977">.mw-parser-output .abbr-header{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-bottom:none;background-color:lavender}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .caption-purple{background:inherit!important}}.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-top:none;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:5px}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border-top:1px #a2a9b1 solid!important}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:none}}</style><table class="table-pale" style="width:15em;border-top-width:0;border-spacing: 0;float:none;clear:none;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0;"><caption class="caption-purple" style="padding:0.25em;font-weight:bold">Taunton Deane population since 1801</caption><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Percent change" class="abbr-header">±%</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1801</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">33,139</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">—    </td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1851</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">51,844</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+56.4%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1901</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">53,759</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.7%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1911</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">55,666</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.5%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1921</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">56,161</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">+0.9%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1931</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">56,661</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.9%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1941</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">62,745</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+10.7%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1951</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">69,492</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+10.8%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1961</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">75,320</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+8.4%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1971</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">81,639</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">+8.4%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1981</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">84,795</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.9%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1991</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">95,791</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+13.0%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2001</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">102,304</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+6.8%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2010</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">109,883</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+7.4%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000)"><div class="center"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/60px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/80px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></div></td><td class="mbox-text" style="text-align: left;"><div class="mbox-text-span">Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334940" class="extiw" title="phab:T334940">Phabricator</a> and on <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Plans" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:Graph/Plans">MediaWiki.org</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);font-size:85%;text-align:left">Source: A Vision of Britain through Time & Inform Somerset<a href="#cite_note-inform.sine.org.uk-57">[57]</a><a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a></td></tr></tbody></table> In 2011, Taunton built-up area had a population of 60,479<a href="#cite_note-nomisweb.co.uk-1">[1]</a> and the surrounding borough of Taunton Deane one of 110,187.<a href="#cite_note-nomisweb.co.uk-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-auto-59">[59]</a> Of Taunton's residents 91.6 per cent were White British in 2011,<a href="#cite_note-nomisweb.co.uk-1">[1]</a> compared with 93.4 per cent for Taunton Deane.<a href="#cite_note-auto-59">[59]</a> Taunton's ethnic mix resembles that of South West England – 91.8 per cent White British in the same year. It is also matches other major regional centres like <a href="/wiki/Poole" title="Poole">Poole</a> and <a href="/wiki/Plymouth" title="Plymouth">Plymouth</a>. The larger urban area, extending to <a href="/wiki/Monkton_Heathfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Monkton Heathfield">Monkton Heathfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norton_Fitzwarren" title="Norton Fitzwarren">Norton Fitzwarren</a> and Bathpool, had a 2011 population of 64,621.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Economy">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Taunton_carnival_2009_Gemini_CC_To_the_Trees_cart.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A large vehicle lit by many lights and carrying people dressed in costume in a darkened street. People stand on the balconies of the shops behind." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Taunton_carnival_2009_Gemini_CC_To_the_Trees_cart.jpg/220px-Taunton_carnival_2009_Gemini_CC_To_the_Trees_cart.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Taunton_carnival_2009_Gemini_CC_To_the_Trees_cart.jpg/330px-Taunton_carnival_2009_Gemini_CC_To_the_Trees_cart.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Taunton_carnival_2009_Gemini_CC_To_the_Trees_cart.jpg/440px-Taunton_carnival_2009_Gemini_CC_To_the_Trees_cart.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>The annual Taunton Carnival takes a route through the shopping district in the centre of the town.</figcaption></figure> Taunton Deane had low unemployment of 4.1 per cent compared with a national average of 5.0 per cent in 2005.<a href="#cite_note-tdbc-61">[61]</a> Taunton is home to the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Hydrographic_Office" title="United Kingdom Hydrographic Office">United Kingdom Hydrographic Office</a> (UKHO), a <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(United_Kingdom)" title="Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)">Ministry of Defence</a> body responsible for providing <a href="/wiki/Navigation" title="Navigation">navigational</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Hydrography" title="Hydrography">hydrographic</a> information for national, civil and defence requirements. The UKHO is located on Admiralty Way and has a workforce of about 1100.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> At the start of the Second World War, chart printing moved to Taunton, but the main office did not follow until 1968.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> Taunton holds the head offices of Western Provident Association, <a href="/wiki/Viridor" title="Viridor">Viridor</a> and CANDAC.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Other professional services are based at Blackbrook near the motorway junction. The first store of the multinational <a href="/wiki/New_Look_(clothing_retailer)" class="mw-redirect" title="New Look (clothing retailer)">New Look</a> clothing retailer opened in Taunton in 1969.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> Taunton is also famed for <a href="/wiki/Cider" title="Cider">cider</a>.<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Landmarks">Landmarks</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Landmarks">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Graysalmshouses.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Red brick building." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Graysalmshouses.jpg/220px-Graysalmshouses.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Graysalmshouses.jpg/330px-Graysalmshouses.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Graysalmshouses.jpg/440px-Graysalmshouses.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Gray's Almshouses</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Gray%27s_Almshouses,_Taunton" class="mw-redirect" title="Gray's Almshouses, Taunton">Gray's Almshouses</a> in East Street, founded by Robert Gray in 1615 for poor single women,<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> are red brick buildings bearing the arms of Robert Gray, dated 1635, and another arms of the Merchant Tailors. A small room used as a chapel has original benches and a painted ceiling. It has been classed by <a href="/wiki/English_Heritage" title="English Heritage">English Heritage</a> as a Grade I <a href="/wiki/Listed_building" title="Listed building">listed building</a>.<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> <a href="/wiki/St_Margaret%27s_Almshouses" title="St Margaret's Almshouses">St Margaret's Almshouses</a> was founded as a <a href="/wiki/Leper_colony" title="Leper colony">leper colony</a> in the 12th century. <a href="/wiki/Glastonbury_Abbey" title="Glastonbury Abbey">Glastonbury Abbey</a> acquired patronage of it in the late 13th century and rebuilt it as <a href="/wiki/Almshouses" class="mw-redirect" title="Almshouses">almshouses</a> in the early 16th. From 1612 to 1938 the building continued as such, cared for by a local parish. In the late 1930s it was converted into a hall of offices for the <a href="/wiki/Rural_Community_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Rural Community Council">Rural Community Council</a> and accommodation for the Somerset Guild of Craftsmen. It later fell into disrepair. The <a href="/wiki/Somerset_Buildings_Preservation_Trust" title="Somerset Buildings Preservation Trust">Somerset Buildings Preservation Trust</a> with Falcon Rural Housing purchased and restored it for use as four units of social housing. It is a Grade II* listed building.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> The grounds of <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Castle" title="Taunton Castle">Taunton Castle</a><a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> include the <a href="/wiki/Somerset_County_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Somerset County Museum">Somerset County Museum</a> and <a href="/wiki/Castle_Hotel,_Taunton" title="Castle Hotel, Taunton">The Castle Hotel</a>, which incorporates the Castle Bow archway. With the municipal buildings they form a three-sided group just beyond the Castle Bow archway from Fore Street. A plain brick Mecca Bingo hall fills the west side of it.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> The frontage of the Fore Street <a href="/wiki/Tudor_Tavern,_Taunton" title="Tudor Tavern, Taunton">Tudor Tavern</a>, now a <a href="/wiki/Caff%C3%A8_Nero" title="Caffè Nero">Caffè Nero</a> branch, dates from 1578, but the rest is thought to be from the 14th century.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fore_Street_Taunton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Old photograph of Tudor building with wooden buildings in the protruding upper floors." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Fore_Street_Taunton.jpg/220px-Fore_Street_Taunton.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Fore_Street_Taunton.jpg/330px-Fore_Street_Taunton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Fore_Street_Taunton.jpg/440px-Fore_Street_Taunton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="563" /></a><figcaption>Tudor Buildings, Fore Street</figcaption></figure> The riverside area north of the centre is edged by <a href="/wiki/Morrisons" title="Morrisons">Morrisons</a> supermarket, retirement housing and the <a href="/wiki/Brewhouse_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Brewhouse Theatre">Brewhouse Theatre</a>. Towards the centre are the Zinc Nightclub, Bridge Street and Goodlands Gardens. A current[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">when?</a>] regeneration programme north of Bridge Street will include redeveloping the <a href="/wiki/County_Ground,_Taunton" title="County Ground, Taunton">County Cricket Ground</a>, which hosted open-air concerts for <a href="/wiki/Elton_John" title="Elton John">Elton John</a> in 2006 and 2012 and for <a href="/wiki/Rod_Stewart" title="Rod Stewart">Rod Stewart</a> in 2014. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shopping">Shopping</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Shopping">edit</a>]</div> Hankridge Farm, a retail park close to the M5 motorway, has stores that include <a href="/wiki/PC_World_(retailer)" title="PC World (retailer)">Currys PC World</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oak_Furniture_Land" class="mw-redirect" title="Oak Furniture Land">Oak Furniture Land</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hobbycraft" title="Hobbycraft">Hobbycraft</a>, <a href="/wiki/Halfords" title="Halfords">Halfords</a>, <a href="/wiki/B%26Q" title="B&Q">B&Q</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Range_(retailer)" title="The Range (retailer)">The Range</a> and the town's second <a href="/wiki/Sainsbury%27s" title="Sainsbury's">Sainsbury's</a>. There is a Venue in the park with restaurants, an <a href="/wiki/Odeon_Cinemas" title="Odeon Cinemas">Odeon cinema</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Bowl_Group" title="Hollywood Bowl Group">Hollywood Bowl</a> bowling alley. It is now known as Riverside Retail Park. Taunton has three other such parks. Belvedere is near the town centre. St Johns is just off Toneway, towards the motorway, and consists of two units, occupied by <a href="/wiki/DFS_(British_retailer)" class="mw-redirect" title="DFS (British retailer)">DFS</a>, joined by Go Outdoors in April 2014. Taunton's second largest retail park is Priory Fields in Priory Avenue, with eight units and an anchor store, <a href="/wiki/Wickes" title="Wickes">Wickes</a>. It was redeveloped in 2003 to modernise a rather worn-out retail park and increase retail floor space. The Old Market was a farmers' market in the Parade in front of Market House, but then moved to the Firepool area, although cattle trading on the site ceased only in 2008.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> A large indoor shopping centre to the east of the Parade covers a site that was once a pig market. Although its official name is now Orchard, and before that the Old Market Centre, locals still call it the Pig Market; one existed there from 1614 to 1882.<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> County Walk is a small indoor shopping arcade in the town centre with an anchor supermarket, <a href="/wiki/Sainsbury%27s" title="Sainsbury's">Sainsbury's</a>, and several other large national retailers such as <a href="/wiki/Subway_(restaurant)" title="Subway (restaurant)">Subway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Costa_Coffee" title="Costa Coffee">Costa Coffee</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Savers_(UK_retailer)" title="Savers (UK retailer)">Savers</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Public_parks">Public parks</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Public parks">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vivary_fountain_3-2793.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Ornamental fountain in circular pool surrounded by grassy areas. In the background is a red brick building." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Vivary_fountain_3-2793.jpg/220px-Vivary_fountain_3-2793.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Vivary_fountain_3-2793.jpg/330px-Vivary_fountain_3-2793.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Vivary_fountain_3-2793.jpg/440px-Vivary_fountain_3-2793.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4261" data-file-height="2841" /></a><figcaption>Victoria memorial water fountain, <a href="/wiki/Vivary_Park" title="Vivary Park">Vivary Park</a> with <a href="/wiki/Jellalabad_Barracks,_Taunton" title="Jellalabad Barracks, Taunton">Jellalabad Barracks</a> in the background</figcaption></figure> Taunton's public parks include <a href="/wiki/Vivary_Park" title="Vivary Park">Vivary Park</a>, Goodlands Park and Victoria Park. The most notable is Vivary, on land that was once a medieval <a href="/wiki/Fish_farming" title="Fish farming">fish farm</a> or <a href="/wiki/Vivarium" title="Vivarium">vivarium</a> for <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Priory" title="Taunton Priory">Taunton Priory</a> and <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Castle" title="Taunton Castle">Taunton Castle</a>.<a href="#cite_note-vivary-74">[74]</a> Fronted by a pair of <a href="/wiki/Cast_iron" title="Cast iron">cast iron</a> gates from the <a href="/wiki/Saracen_Foundry" title="Saracen Foundry">Saracen Foundry</a> of Glasgow,<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> it contains the Sherford Stream, a Tone tributary that flows through the 7.5 hectares (19 acres) park, which is near the town centre.<a href="#cite_note-greenflag-76">[76]</a> It has two main open spaces and a <a href="/wiki/War_memorial" title="War memorial">war memorial</a> dating from 1922, a miniature <a href="/wiki/Golf_course" title="Golf course">golf course</a>, tennis courts, two children's playgrounds, a <a href="/wiki/Rail_transport_modelling" title="Rail transport modelling">model railway track</a> added in 1979, and an 18-hole, 4620-yard, par-63 golf course.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> The park includes trees, rose beds and <a href="/wiki/Herbaceous_border" title="Herbaceous border">herbaceous borders</a>, with some 56,000 spring and summer <a href="/wiki/Flowerbed" class="mw-redirect" title="Flowerbed">bedding plants</a> used each year.<a href="#cite_note-greenflag-76">[76]</a> The rose garden includes the <a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Rose_Society" title="Royal National Rose Society">Royal National Rose Society</a> Provincial Trial Ground.<a href="#cite_note-vivary-74">[74]</a> <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Flower_Show" title="Taunton Flower Show">Taunton Flower Show</a> held annually in the park since the 19th century. It has been described as "The <a href="/wiki/Chelsea_Flower_Show" title="Chelsea Flower Show">Chelsea</a> of the West",<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> and draws some 24,000 visitors over two days.<a href="#cite_note-eghn-79">[79]</a> Goodlands Gardens, in the centre of the town, is behind the former <a href="/wiki/Debenhams" title="Debenhams">Debenhams</a> department store and <a href="/wiki/Castle_Hotel,_Taunton" title="Castle Hotel, Taunton">The Castle Hotel</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pride_Rainbow_Path">Pride Rainbow Path</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Pride Rainbow Path">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Taunton_Pride_Path_(2021).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Taunton_Pride_Path_%282021%29.JPG/220px-Taunton_Pride_Path_%282021%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Taunton_Pride_Path_%282021%29.JPG/330px-Taunton_Pride_Path_%282021%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Taunton_Pride_Path_%282021%29.JPG/440px-Taunton_Pride_Path_%282021%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1366" data-file-height="910" /></a><figcaption>Pride Rainbow Path, Taunton.</figcaption></figure> The Pride Rainbow Path in Goodland Gardens, Taunton town centre, runs alongside the <a href="/wiki/River_Tone" title="River Tone">River Tone</a>. Designed by Jenny Keogh and Liz Hutchin of GoCreate,<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-81">[81]</a> it opened on 28 June 2021 to mark the anniversary of the <a href="/wiki/Stonewall_riots" title="Stonewall riots">Stonewall riots</a>, which served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement. It is believed to be the first such path in the UK.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-81">[81]</a> The opening coincided with the first Taunton <a href="/wiki/Pride_parade" title="Pride parade">Pride</a> in July 2021 and the Pride inspired Art Trail.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a><a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a> The far end of the 62-metre path includes the chevron of <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Quasar" title="Daniel Quasar">Daniel Quasar</a>'s "Progress" flag, which incorporates the transgender flag and ethnic minorities, while the majority of the path uses the traditional <a href="/wiki/LGBT_symbols" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT symbols">LGBT rainbow</a>.<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> The path has been designed not to require maintenance for 15 years.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-81">[81]</a> It was funded by Taunton's Emergency Town Centre Recovery Fund and is intended to reflect Taunton's commitment to inclusivity and diversity. <div style="clear:left;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Transport">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Railway">Railway</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Railway">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2021_at_Taunton_station_-_down_side_rejuvenated.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/2021_at_Taunton_station_-_down_side_rejuvenated.JPG/220px-2021_at_Taunton_station_-_down_side_rejuvenated.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/2021_at_Taunton_station_-_down_side_rejuvenated.JPG/330px-2021_at_Taunton_station_-_down_side_rejuvenated.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/2021_at_Taunton_station_-_down_side_rejuvenated.JPG/440px-2021_at_Taunton_station_-_down_side_rejuvenated.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1366" /></a><figcaption>Taunton station entrance</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Taunton_railway_station" title="Taunton railway station">Taunton railway station</a> is a principal stop on the <a href="/wiki/Bristol_to_Exeter_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Bristol to Exeter line">Bristol to Exeter line</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Reading_to_Taunton_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Reading to Taunton line">Reading to Taunton line</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Cross_Country_Route" title="Cross Country Route">Cross Country Route</a>. It is served by two <a href="/wiki/Train_operating_companies" class="mw-redirect" title="Train operating companies">train operating companies</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway_(train_operating_company)" title="Great Western Railway (train operating company)">Great Western Railway</a> operates services to <a href="/wiki/London_Paddington_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="London Paddington railway station">London Paddington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Exeter_St_Davids_railway_station" title="Exeter St Davids railway station">Exeter St Davids</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_railway_station" title="Plymouth railway station">Plymouth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Penzance_railway_station" title="Penzance railway station">Penzance</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardiff_Central_railway_station" title="Cardiff Central railway station">Cardiff Central</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Temple_Meads_railway_station" title="Bristol Temple Meads railway station">Bristol Temple Meads</a>. It also manages the station.<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CrossCountry" title="CrossCountry">CrossCountry</a> provides services to <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_New_Street_railway_station" title="Birmingham New Street railway station">Birmingham New Street</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leeds_railway_station" title="Leeds railway station">Leeds</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Piccadilly_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Manchester Piccadilly railway station">Manchester Piccadilly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Central_railway_station" title="Glasgow Central railway station">Glasgow Central</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Waverley_railway_station" title="Edinburgh Waverley railway station">Edinburgh Waverley</a>, Plymouth and Penzance.<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a></li></ul> The former railway to <a href="/wiki/Minehead_railway_station" title="Minehead railway station">Minehead</a> was closed in 1971 and is now a <a href="/wiki/Heritage_railway" title="Heritage railway">heritage railway</a>; <a href="/wiki/West_Somerset_Railway" title="West Somerset Railway">West Somerset Railway</a> provides services between <a href="/wiki/Bishops_Lydeard_railway_station" title="Bishops Lydeard railway station">Bishops Lydeard</a> and Minehead. In 2009, Project Taunton, the authority responsible for Taunton's regeneration, revealed proposals for <a href="/wiki/Taunton_metro_rail" title="Taunton metro rail">Taunton metro rail</a>, under a transport sustainability plan.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> They were not implemented. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Road">Road</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Road">edit</a>]</div> Taunton has road links with the <a href="/wiki/M5_motorway" title="M5 motorway">M5 motorway</a> junctions 25 (Taunton) and 26 (<a href="/wiki/Wellington,_Somerset" title="Wellington, Somerset">Wellington</a>) close to the town, and other major roads such as the <a href="/wiki/A38_road" title="A38 road">A38</a> and A358. The Taunton bypass section of the M5, between the two junctions, opened in April 1974 and relieved the town of heavy holiday traffic on the A38. <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Deane_services" title="Taunton Deane services">Taunton Deane services</a> use that motorway section. A strong economy increases traffic; in 2011, the County Council foresaw a sharp rise from 2001 levels.<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> Two major roads opened: the Third Way (A3807) linking Bridge Street and Castle Street in 2011,<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> and the Northern Inner Distributor Road (A3087) between Staplegrove Road and Priory Avenue in July 2017.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a><a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2011_M5_crash">2011 M5 crash</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: 2011 M5 crash">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2011_M5_motorway_crash" title="2011 M5 motorway crash">2011 M5 motorway crash</a></div> On the evening of 4 November 2011, 34 vehicles met with an accident near junction 25 of the <a href="/wiki/M5_motorway" title="M5 motorway">M5 motorway</a> northbound, on the north-eastern edge of the town at <a href="/wiki/West_Monkton" title="West Monkton">West Monkton</a>.<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> Seven people were killed and a further 51 injured.<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Buses_and_coaches">Buses and coaches</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Buses and coaches">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Taunton_bus_station.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Taunton_bus_station.JPG/220px-Taunton_bus_station.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="88" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Taunton_bus_station.JPG/330px-Taunton_bus_station.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Taunton_bus_station.JPG/440px-Taunton_bus_station.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4208" data-file-height="1678" /></a><figcaption>Taunton's former bus station</figcaption></figure> Bus services in the Taunton area are detailed below:<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a> <ul><li>Many local services are provided by <a href="/wiki/The_Buses_of_Somerset" title="The Buses of Somerset">The Buses of Somerset</a>; their routes operate to <a href="/wiki/Minehead" title="Minehead">Minehead</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bridgwater" title="Bridgwater">Bridgwater</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yeovil" title="Yeovil">Yeovil</a>. Its route 28 links the railway stations at Taunton and Bishops Lydeard.<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a><a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> Other services are provided by Hatch Green Coaches.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> <a href="/wiki/Taunton_bus_station" title="Taunton bus station">Taunton bus station</a> was in Tower Street from 1953 until 2020. Most services now terminate at stops on The Parade or Castle Way.</li> <li>Taunton's <a href="/wiki/Park_and_ride" title="Park and ride">park and ride</a> service operates between Taunton gateway near the M5 motorway and Silk Mills on the north-west side of town. It is operated by <a href="/wiki/Stagecoach" title="Stagecoach">Stagecoach</a>, who also operate the Falcon coach service between Plymouth, Taunton and Bristol.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berrys_Coaches" title="Berrys Coaches">Berrys Coaches</a>, based in Taunton, operates several 'Superfast' services to <a href="/wiki/Hammersmith_bus_station" title="Hammersmith bus station">London</a>,<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> as well as operating services on behalf of <a href="/wiki/Flixbus" class="mw-redirect" title="Flixbus">Flixbus</a>. <a href="/wiki/National_Express_Coaches" title="National Express Coaches">National Express</a> runs long-distance coach services to many destinations.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Air">Air</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Air">edit</a>]</div> The nearest airports are <a href="/wiki/Exeter_Airport" title="Exeter Airport">Exeter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Airport" title="Bristol Airport">Bristol</a>, both within 40 mi (64 km) of Taunton.<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a><a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Trams">Trams</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Trams">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Taunton_single_deck_tramcar_2_in_Fore_Street.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Taunton_single_deck_tramcar_2_in_Fore_Street.jpg/220px-Taunton_single_deck_tramcar_2_in_Fore_Street.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Taunton_single_deck_tramcar_2_in_Fore_Street.jpg/330px-Taunton_single_deck_tramcar_2_in_Fore_Street.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Taunton_single_deck_tramcar_2_in_Fore_Street.jpg/440px-Taunton_single_deck_tramcar_2_in_Fore_Street.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>A single-deck car in Fore Street, c.1910</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Tramway" title="Taunton Tramway">Taunton Tramway</a> opened on 21 August 1901. Six double-decker cars operated on a 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge line between <a href="/wiki/Taunton_railway_station" title="Taunton railway station">the railway station</a> and the depot at East Reach. In 1905 the service was withdrawn for two months while the track was improved; the cars were replaced by six single-decker cars and the old double deckers sold to <a href="/wiki/Leamington_Spa" title="Leamington Spa">Leamington Spa</a>. A short extension beyond the station to Rowbarton opened in 1909, making the line 1.66 miles (2.7 km) long. However, the price of its electricity was due to rise in 1928 to a level the firm refused to pay, and it offered to sell out, but this was not accepted. The electricity was cut off on 28 May 1921 and the system closed.<a href="#cite_note-tramways-101">[101]</a><a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Canal">Canal</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Canal">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/Bridgwater_and_Taunton_Canal" title="Bridgwater and Taunton Canal">Bridgwater and Taunton Canal</a> is a navigable waterway that links Taunton with Bridgwater, opened in 1827. Having been closed to navigation in 1907, it re-opened after restoration in 1994. <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Education">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kingscollegetaunton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Red brick building with tower. In the foreground are grass and shrubs." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Kingscollegetaunton.jpg/220px-Kingscollegetaunton.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Kingscollegetaunton.jpg/330px-Kingscollegetaunton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Kingscollegetaunton.jpg/440px-Kingscollegetaunton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/King%27s_College_(Taunton)" class="mw-redirect" title="King's College (Taunton)">King's College</a></figcaption></figure> State secondary schools in Taunton include <a href="/wiki/The_Castle_School_Taunton" class="mw-redirect" title="The Castle School Taunton">The Castle School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Heathfield_Community_School" title="Heathfield Community School">Heathfield Community School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bishop_Fox%27s_School" title="Bishop Fox's School">Bishop Fox's School</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Taunton_Academy" title="The Taunton Academy">The Taunton Academy</a>. Further education is offered by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Huish_College,_Taunton" title="Richard Huish College, Taunton">Richard Huish College</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Taunton_Academy" title="The Taunton Academy">The Taunton Academy</a> (sponsored by Richard Huish College) and <a href="/wiki/Bridgwater_and_Taunton_College" title="Bridgwater and Taunton College">Bridgwater and Taunton College</a>. <a href="/wiki/Heathfield_Community_School" title="Heathfield Community School">Heathfield Community School</a> has a post-16 further education college specialising in performing arts and technical theatre called The SPACE (The Somerset Performing Arts Centre for Education). Heathfield Community School is also a teaching school and the base of Taunton Teaching Alliance.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> The Taunton campus of Bridgwater and Taunton College is a partner of <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Plymouth University">Plymouth University</a> and includes University Centre Taunton. There are three co-educational <a href="/wiki/Private_schools_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Private schools in the United Kingdom">private schools</a>: <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_College,_Taunton" title="Queen's College, Taunton">Queen's College</a>, <a href="/wiki/King%27s_College_(Taunton)" class="mw-redirect" title="King's College (Taunton)">King's College</a> and <a href="/wiki/Taunton_School" title="Taunton School">Taunton School</a>. In March 2009, it was found that <a href="/wiki/Jim_Knight" title="Jim Knight">Jim Knight</a>, Minister of State for Schools and Families, had approved the closure of <a href="/wiki/Ladymead_Community_School" title="Ladymead Community School">Ladymead Community School</a> and the nearby <a href="/wiki/The_St_Augustine_of_Canterbury_School,_Taunton" title="The St Augustine of Canterbury School, Taunton">St Augustine of Canterbury RC/CoE School</a> in the Priorswood area of Taunton.<a href="#cite_note-closure-104">[104]</a> They gave way in September 2010 to the Taunton Academy.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> Young people with special educational needs are provided for by two special schools and one complex <a href="/wiki/Pupil_Referral_Unit" title="Pupil Referral Unit">Pupil Referral Unit</a> (PRU). Sky College caters for boys aged 10–18 who have social, emotional and mental-health difficulties. Selworthy School has pupils of 4–19 who have complex and multiple learning difficulties,<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> while the Taunton Deane Partnership College is a complex PRU for children in Key Stages 2, 3 and 4, with a Medical Tuition Service, Outreach & Advisory Service and an Area Access Team.<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Health_services">Health services</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Health services">edit</a>]</div> Taunton is within Somerset Primary Care Trust and home to <a href="/wiki/Musgrove_Park_Hospital" title="Musgrove Park Hospital">Musgrove Park Hospital</a>. This is one of two district hospitals in <a href="/wiki/Somerset_NHS_Foundation_Trust" title="Somerset NHS Foundation Trust">Somerset NHS Foundation Trust</a>, alongside <a href="/wiki/Yeovil_Hospital" title="Yeovil Hospital">Yeovil Hospital</a>. A Nuffield Hospital also lies in the town, run privately by <a href="/wiki/Nuffield_Health" title="Nuffield Health">Nuffield Health</a>. The town has several medical surgeries and a family planning clinic, an occupational health centre and a chiropractic clinic.<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a><a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religious_sites">Religious sites</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Religious sites">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:St_Mary_Magdalene_Taunton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Yellow stone building with arched windows and ornate square tower." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/St_Mary_Magdalene_Taunton.jpg/170px-St_Mary_Magdalene_Taunton.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/St_Mary_Magdalene_Taunton.jpg/255px-St_Mary_Magdalene_Taunton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/St_Mary_Magdalene_Taunton.jpg/340px-St_Mary_Magdalene_Taunton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/St_Mary_Magdalene,_Taunton" class="mw-redirect" title="St Mary Magdalene, Taunton">Taunton Minster Church of St. Mary Magdalene</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:St_John_Taunton.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/St_John_Taunton.JPG/170px-St_John_Taunton.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/St_John_Taunton.JPG/255px-St_John_Taunton.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/St_John_Taunton.JPG/340px-St_John_Taunton.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3377" data-file-height="3826" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/St_John_the_Evangelist,_Taunton" title="St John the Evangelist, Taunton">Church of St John the Evangelist</a></figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/St_Mary_Magdalene,_Taunton" class="mw-redirect" title="St Mary Magdalene, Taunton">Taunton Minster Church of St Mary Magdalene</a>, built of sandstone more in the South Somerset style, retains an attractive painted interior, but its prime feature is a 15th and 16th-century tower rebuilt in the mid-19th century. It is one of the country's best examples and a landmark 158 feet (48 m) high.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a><a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a> It was termed by <a href="/wiki/Simon_Jenkins" title="Simon Jenkins">Simon Jenkins</a>, "the finest in England. It makes its peace with the sky not just with a coronet but with the entire crown jewels cast in red-brown stone."<a href="#cite_note-jenkins-112">[112]</a> It holds 12 bells and 3 bells "hung dead" for the clock.<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> Close by is the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_St._James,_Taunton" title="Church of St. James, Taunton">parish church of St James</a> near the centre of Taunton close. The oldest parts are early 14th century; there are fragments of 15th-century glass in the west end. Like St Mary's, it has a sandstone tower, but built to a less impressive design. It too was rebuilt in the 19th century, in this case due to building defects in the original.<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> It backs onto the <a href="/wiki/County_Ground,_Taunton" title="County Ground, Taunton">County Ground</a>. The church of <a href="/wiki/St_John_the_Evangelist%27s_Church,_Taunton" class="mw-redirect" title="St John the Evangelist's Church, Taunton">St John the Evangelist</a> was built in 1858 to serve the poor of the town.<a href="#cite_note-Explore-115">[115]</a> The <a href="/wiki/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Taunton" title="St Andrew's Church, Taunton">church of St Andrew</a>, built 1878, serves the area of Rowbarton.<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> In the later 17th century, Taunton had two <a href="/wiki/Nonconformist_(Protestantism)" title="Nonconformist (Protestantism)">Dissenting</a> places of worship: "Paul's Meeting" and the Baptist Meeting.<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a> The former was built at the top of Paul Street soon after 1672 on a bowling green behind the Three Cups Inn, now The County Hotel, and rapidly became one of the largest congregations in the county. After Mayor Timewell <a href="/wiki/Looting" title="Looting">sacked</a> both Paul's Meeting and the Baptist Meeting in 1683,<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a> the dissenters were driven to worship in private houses on the outskirts of Taunton, where their assemblies were regularly raided by the Justices of the Peace. Paul's Meeting survived attempts to turn it into a workhouse, and with the coming of <a href="/wiki/William_III_of_England" title="William III of England">William III</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mary_II_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary II of England">Mary II</a>, followed by the <a href="/wiki/Toleration_Act_1688" title="Toleration Act 1688">Toleration Act 1688</a>, it reopened. <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Willoughby,_15th_Baron_Willoughby_of_Parham" title="Hugh Willoughby, 15th Baron Willoughby of Parham">Hugh Willoughby, 15th Baron Willoughby of Parham</a>, was educated in early life at Taunton Dissenters' Academy.<a href="#cite_note-Higson170-119">[119]</a> The Baptist Meeting became the Baptist New Meeting, registered in 1691 and rebuilt in 1721 as Mary Street Chapel.<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a> <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Unitarian_Chapel" title="Taunton Unitarian Chapel">Taunton Unitarian Chapel</a>, dating from 1721,<a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a> stands in Mary Street. <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a>, while living at <a href="/wiki/Nether_Stowey" title="Nether Stowey">Nether Stowey</a> 16 miles (26 km) away, came to the chapel to preach several times. Dr Malachi Blake, who founded the Taunton and Somerset Hospital in East Reach, Taunton, was also a preacher there, attending in 1809 a celebration of the 50th year of <a href="/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="George III of the United Kingdom">George the Third's</a> reign. The chapel retains its original interior, including <a href="/wiki/Flanders" title="Flanders">Flemish</a> oak pillars in <a href="/wiki/Corinthian_order" title="Corinthian order">Corinthian</a> style. The <a href="/wiki/Pew" title="Pew">pews</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pulpit" title="Pulpit">pulpit</a> are also in oak. There is an early 18th-century <a href="/wiki/Candelabra" title="Candelabra">candelabra</a>. <a href="/wiki/St_George%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church,_Taunton" title="St George's Roman Catholic Church, Taunton">St George's</a>, the town's <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a> church, dates from the mid-19th century. It was the second Catholic church built in Taunton since the <a href="/wiki/English_Reformation" title="English Reformation">Reformation</a>, replacing a smaller <a href="/wiki/Masonic_Hall,_Taunton" title="Masonic Hall, Taunton">St George's Chapel</a>. The main building is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building, while the <a href="/wiki/Clergy_house" title="Clergy house">clergy house</a> is Grade II listed. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Culture">edit</a>]</div> Taunton town centre has the <a href="/wiki/Brewhouse_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Brewhouse Theatre">Brewhouse Theatre</a>. It closed in February 2013 due to financial difficulties, but reopened in April 2014 under the Taunton Theatre Association (TTA), which was granted the 61-year lease that Taunton Deane Borough Council had bought on the site and its contents from the administrator.<a href="#cite_note-122">[122]</a><a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a> Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre<a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a> is a professional theatre based at <a href="/wiki/Heathfield_Community_School" title="Heathfield Community School">Heathfield Community School</a>, hosting touring theatre, dance and comedy, and productions by South West schools and colleges. Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre also runs community classes. The Creative Innovation Centre CIC has an arts and culture venue in the town centre.<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> Several concerts a year are held at Taunton's largest church, St Mary Magdalene. In recent years <a href="/wiki/The_Sixteen" title="The Sixteen">The Sixteen</a>, The <a href="/wiki/Tallis_Scholars" class="mw-redirect" title="Tallis Scholars">Tallis Scholars</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gabrieli_Consort" class="mw-redirect" title="Gabrieli Consort">Gabrieli Consort</a> have all performed to full audiences.<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a> Taunton also has several choirs and orchestras that perform in the town's churches and school chapels. Many music and drama groups are members of the Taunton Association of Performing Arts (TAPA), which produces a diary and calendar of performances in and about the town.<a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a> Taunton has three radio stations: <a href="/wiki/BBC_Somerset" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC Somerset">BBC Somerset</a>,<a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a> <a href="/wiki/Tone_FM" title="Tone FM">Tone FM</a>,<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a> and Apple FM.<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a> Since 2001, Taunton has been the base of a domestic violence charity, the <a href="/wiki/ManKind_Initiative" title="ManKind Initiative">ManKind Initiative</a>, to help male victims of domestic abuse.<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cultural_references">Cultural references</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Cultural references">edit</a>]</div> Taunton is mentioned in <a href="/wiki/The_Remains_of_the_Day" title="The Remains of the Day">The Remains of the Day</a> by <a href="/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro" title="Kazuo Ishiguro">Kazuo Ishiguro</a>,<a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a> <a href="/wiki/Tinker,_Tailor,_Soldier,_Spy" class="mw-redirect" title="Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy">Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy</a> by <a href="/wiki/John_le_Carr%C3%A9" title="John le Carré">John le Carré</a>,<a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Evelyn_Waugh" title="Evelyn Waugh">Evelyn Waugh</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Scoop_(novel)" title="Scoop (novel)">Scoop</a>. It was given the fictitious name "Toneborough" by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hardy" title="Thomas Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a>.<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sport">Sport</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Sport">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:County_ground_taunton_somerset_stand.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/County_ground_taunton_somerset_stand.jpg/220px-County_ground_taunton_somerset_stand.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="83" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/County_ground_taunton_somerset_stand.jpg/330px-County_ground_taunton_somerset_stand.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/County_ground_taunton_somerset_stand.jpg/440px-County_ground_taunton_somerset_stand.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3294" data-file-height="1248" /></a><figcaption>Somerset playing Yorkshire at the County Ground</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Taunton_R.F.C." title="Taunton R.F.C.">Taunton Rugby Football Club</a> (RFC), based in Taunton, currently play in <a href="/wiki/National_League_1" title="National League 1">National League 1</a>, having achieved back-to-back promotions in 2009 and 2010 and then again in 2020.<a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a> It played at <a href="/wiki/Priory_Park_Sports_Ground" title="Priory Park Sports Ground">Priory Park Sports Ground</a> from 1935 to 2001, before moving to the Commsplus Stadium.<a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a> The <a href="/wiki/County_Ground,_Taunton" title="County Ground, Taunton">County Ground</a> was originally home to Taunton Cricket Club, formed in 1829. It played at the County Ground until 1977, before moving to Moorfields, Taunton, in conjunction with Taunton Vale Hockey Club, since when the County Ground has been solely used by <a href="/wiki/Somerset_County_Cricket_Club" title="Somerset County Cricket Club">Somerset County Cricket Club</a> (CCC).<a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a> Somerset CCC was formed in 1875, but did not achieve first-class status until 1891.<a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a> The County Ground has a capacity of 8,500;<a href="#cite_note-140">[140]</a> the ends are called the River End and the Marcus Trescothick Pavilion End.<a href="#cite_note-141">[141]</a> It is the current home of the <a href="/wiki/England_women%27s_cricket_team" title="England women's cricket team">England women's cricket team</a>. The Somerset Cricket Museum is nearby. Taunton Cricket Club has since 2002 been located at the new <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Vale_Sports_Club_Ground" title="Taunton Vale Sports Club Ground">Taunton Vale Sports Club Ground</a> in Staplegrove, which features two <a href="/wiki/Cricket_field" title="Cricket field">cricket fields</a>. The Taunton Vale ground is also a regular home venue for Somerset's Second XI. Taunton Deane Cricket Club has a ground adjacent to Vivary Park, while Taunton St Andrews Cricket Club is based at the nearby Wyvern Sports and Social Club. All three clubs play in the <a href="/wiki/West_of_England_Premier_League" title="West of England Premier League">West of England Premier League</a> or one of its feeder leagues. <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Town_FC" class="mw-redirect" title="Taunton Town FC">Taunton Town Football Club</a> (FC) plays at Wordsworth Drive.<a href="#cite_note-142">[142]</a> An earlier Taunton Town FC played at Priory Park in the 1930s, however the current team was formed in 1947 by local businessmen as Taunton FC, changing to the current name in 1968, and played its first friendly fixture in 1948. For most of its history, Taunton belonged to the Western League. It spent a six-season spell in the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Football_League" title="Southern Football League">Southern League</a> from 1977, and after a further period in the Western League, returned to the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Football_League" title="Southern Football League">Southern League</a> in 2002, after winning the <a href="/wiki/FA_Vase" title="FA Vase">FA Vase</a> in 2001.<a href="#cite_note-143">[143]</a> The club won the Division One South and West league title in 2017/18 and narrowly missed out on further promotion in 2018/19.<a href="#cite_note-144">[144]</a> The club went on to become the 2021/22 champions of the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Football_League" title="Southern Football League">Southern League Premier Division South</a>, securing promotion to the <a href="/wiki/National_League_South" title="National League South">National League South</a> for the first time in the club's history on 23 April 2022. <a href="/wiki/Somerset_Vikings" title="Somerset Vikings">Somerset Vikings</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Rugby_league" title="Rugby league">rugby league</a> club formed in 2003 as part of the <a href="/wiki/Rugby_Football_League" title="Rugby Football League">Rugby Football League</a>'s plans to develop the game beyond its traditional north-of-England areas. Initially the side was made up of a mixture of <a href="/wiki/Royal_Marines" title="Royal Marines">Royal Marines</a> based in Taunton and <a href="/wiki/Exeter" title="Exeter">Exeter</a> with local rugby union players keen to try the 13-man code. It plays at Hyde Park, also home to Taunton RFC.<a href="#cite_note-145">[145]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Tigers" title="Taunton Tigers">Taunton Tigers</a> is a semi-professional <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">basketball</a> team competing in the <a href="/wiki/English_Basketball_League" class="mw-redirect" title="English Basketball League">English Basketball League</a> Men's Division 1. The team plays its home games at Wellsprings Leisure Centre, which seats 500.<a href="#cite_note-146">[146]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Grandstand,_Taunton_racecourse_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1196101.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Grandstand%2C_Taunton_racecourse_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1196101.jpg/220px-Grandstand%2C_Taunton_racecourse_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1196101.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Grandstand%2C_Taunton_racecourse_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1196101.jpg/330px-Grandstand%2C_Taunton_racecourse_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1196101.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Grandstand%2C_Taunton_racecourse_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1196101.jpg/440px-Grandstand%2C_Taunton_racecourse_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1196101.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="360" /></a><figcaption>The Grandstand at the racecourse</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Taunton_Racecourse" title="Taunton Racecourse">Taunton Racecourse</a> is close to the <a href="/wiki/Blackdown_Hills_National_Landscape" class="mw-redirect" title="Blackdown Hills National Landscape">Blackdown Hills</a>, about 2 miles (3 km) from the centre of Taunton. Although racing had been held in the area before, the first race at thi site was held on 21 September 1927. The Orchard Stand and Paddock Stand provide catering facilities and are used for meetings and conferences on days when racing is not taking place.<a href="#cite_note-147">[147]</a> <a href="/wiki/Greyhound_racing_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Greyhound racing in the United Kingdom">Greyhound racing</a> was held at the Priory Park Sports Ground and County Cricket ground in the past.<a href="#cite_note-148">[148]</a><a href="#cite_note-149">[149]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_residents">Notable residents</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Notable residents">edit</a>]</div> The following were born or have lived in Taunton: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Addison" title="Colin Addison">Colin Addison</a> (born 1940), professional footballer and manager born in Taunton<a href="#cite_note-150">[150]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jenny_Agutter" title="Jenny Agutter">Jenny Agutter</a> (born 1952), actress born in Taunton<a href="#cite_note-151">[151]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Alleine" title="Joseph Alleine">Joseph Alleine</a> (1634–1668), Nonconformist pastor and author<a href="#cite_note-152">[152]</a><a href="#cite_note-153">[153]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Larkins_Bernard" title="William Larkins Bernard">William Larkins Bernard</a> (1843–1922), architect born in Taunton<a href="#cite_note-154">[154]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pattie_Boyd" title="Pattie Boyd">Pattie Boyd</a> (born 1944), actress and model; former wife of <a href="/wiki/George_Harrison" title="George Harrison">George Harrison</a>, then <a href="/wiki/Eric_Clapton" title="Eric Clapton">Eric Clapton</a><a href="#cite_note-155">[155]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jos_Buttler" title="Jos Buttler">Jos Buttler</a> (born 1990), England cricketer<a href="#cite_note-156">[156]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deborah_Criddle" title="Deborah Criddle">Deborah Criddle</a> (born 1966), a Taunton-born <a href="/wiki/Para-equestrian" title="Para-equestrian">para-equestrian</a> winner of three golds at the Athens <a href="/wiki/2004_Summer_Paralympics" title="2004 Summer Paralympics">2004 Summer Paralympics</a> and three medals at the London <a href="/wiki/2012_Summer_Paralympics" title="2012 Summer Paralympics">2012 Summer Paralympics</a> in London. She currently lives in nearby <a href="/wiki/Trull" title="Trull">Trull</a>.<a href="#cite_note-157">[157]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Crockford" title="John Crockford">John Crockford</a> (c. 1823–1865), publisher<a href="#cite_note-158">[158]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Crotch" title="William Crotch">William Crotch</a> (1775–1847), composer and Principal of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Academy_of_Music" title="Royal Academy of Music">Royal Academy of Music</a>,<a href="#cite_note-159">[159]</a> is buried at Bishops Hull Church, Taunton.<a href="#cite_note-160">[160]</a><a href="#cite_note-161">[161]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Daldry" title="Stephen Daldry">Stephen Daldry</a> (born 1960), three times Academy Award nominee and Tony Award-winning stage and film director and producer<a href="#cite_note-162">[162]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Daniel" title="Samuel Daniel">Samuel Daniel</a> (1562–1619) a poet, playwright and historian, born "near Taunton".<a href="#cite_note-163">[163]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_George_Gordon" title="Charles George Gordon">Charles George Gordon</a> (1833–1885), UK army general known as Gordon of Khartoum, attended the former Fullands School.<a href="#cite_note-164">[164]</a><a href="#cite_note-165">[165]</a></li> <li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Hammet" title="Benjamin Hammet">Benjamin Hammet</a> (c. 1736–1800), businessman, banker and Taunton native, served as its MP in 1782–1800, and as <a href="/wiki/High_Sheriff" class="mw-redirect" title="High Sheriff">High Sheriff</a> of <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>. He was elected <a href="/wiki/Lord_Mayor_of_London" title="Lord Mayor of London">Lord Mayor of London</a> in 1797 but declined to serve<a href="#cite_note-166">[166]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antony_Hewish" title="Antony Hewish">Antony Hewish</a> (1924-2021), astronomer and <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_for_Physics" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Prize for Physics">Nobel Prize for Physics</a> winner<a href="#cite_note-167">[167]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rebecca_Huxtable" title="Rebecca Huxtable">Rebecca Huxtable</a> (born 1981), Taunton-born radio personality and producer, formerly co-producing <a href="/wiki/The_Scott_Mills_Show" class="mw-redirect" title="The Scott Mills Show">The Scott Mills Show</a> on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_1" title="BBC Radio 1">BBC Radio 1</a><a href="#cite_note-168">[168]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_William_Kinglake" title="Alexander William Kinglake">Alexander William Kinglake</a> (1809–1891), barrister, travel writer and historian, was born at Wilton House near Taunton.<a href="#cite_note-169">[169]</a><a href="#cite_note-170">[170]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Laird" title="Scott Laird">Scott Laird</a> (born 1988), footballer with <a href="/wiki/Scunthorpe_United" class="mw-redirect" title="Scunthorpe United">Scunthorpe United</a><a href="#cite_note-Scott_Laird_–_Soccerbase-171">[171]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Leach" title="Jack Leach">Jack Leach</a> (born 1991), <a href="/wiki/Somerset_County_Cricket_Club" title="Somerset County Cricket Club">Somerset County Cricket Club</a> and England cricketer<a href="#cite_note-172">[172]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_Martin_(footballer,_born_1987)" title="Lee Martin (footballer, born 1987)">Lee Martin</a> (born 1987), Taunton-born footballer with <a href="/wiki/Millwall_F.C." title="Millwall F.C.">Millwall F.C.</a><a href="#cite_note-173">[173]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deborah_Meaden" title="Deborah Meaden">Deborah Meaden</a> (born 1959), Taunton-born business mogul, philanthropist and star of the TV series <a href="/wiki/Dragons_Den" class="mw-redirect" title="Dragons Den">Dragons Den</a><a href="#cite_note-174">[174]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Ellis_Metford" title="William Ellis Metford">William Ellis Metford</a> (1824–1899), Taunton-born engineer known for the Metford rifling in the .303 Lee-Metford service rifle of the late 19th century<a href="#cite_note-175">[175]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ciara_Michel" title="Ciara Michel">Ciara Michel</a> (born 1985), member of <a href="/wiki/Team_GB" title="Team GB">Team GB</a> Olympic <a href="/wiki/Volleyball" title="Volleyball">volleyball</a> squad, the first to play in the Olympic Games<a href="#cite_note-176">[176]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Mole_(poet)" title="John Mole (poet)">John Mole</a> (born 1941), poet and jazz musician born in Taunton<a href="#cite_note-177">[177]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Montague_Moore" title="Frank Montague Moore">Frank Montague Moore</a> (1877–1967), Taunton-born painter and first director of the <a href="/wiki/Honolulu_Museum_of_Art" title="Honolulu Museum of Art">Honolulu Museum of Art</a><a href="#cite_note-178">[178]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_B._Mullett" title="Alfred B. Mullett">Alfred B. Mullett</a> (1834–1890), architect to Abraham Lincoln, born in Taunton<a href="#cite_note-179">[179]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Northcote_(actor)" title="James Northcote (actor)">James Northcote</a> (born 1987), actor and film producer, was a pupil of <a href="/wiki/King%27s_College,_Taunton" title="King's College, Taunton">King's College, Taunton</a>.<a href="#cite_note-180">[180]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justin_Pipe" title="Justin Pipe">Justin Pipe</a> (born 1971), professional darts player<a href="#cite_note-181">[181]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Purefoy" title="James Purefoy">James Purefoy</a> (born 1964), Taunton-born actor, starred in the joint HBO/BBC series Rome.<a href="#cite_note-IMDB-182">[182]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viv_Richards" title="Viv Richards">Viv Richards</a> (born 1952), <a href="/wiki/Antigua" title="Antigua">Antiguan</a>-born West Indies cricketer resident in Taunton while playing for Somerset, 1974–1986<a href="#cite_note-183">[183]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Rhodes" title="Gary Rhodes">Gary Rhodes</a> (1960–2019), celebrated head chef at the <a href="/wiki/Castle_Hotel,_Taunton" title="Castle Hotel, Taunton">Castle Hotel, Taunton</a>, 1986–1990<a href="#cite_note-184">[184]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andy_Robinson" title="Andy Robinson">Andy Robinson</a> (born 1964), Taunton-born England <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">rugby union</a> international and head coach, now head coach of Scotland<a href="#cite_note-185">[185]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivor_Salter" title="Ivor Salter">Ivor Salter</a> (1925-1991), actor, born in Taunton<a href="#cite_note-186">[186]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miranda_Shearer" title="Miranda Shearer">Miranda Shearer</a> (born 1982), author born in Taunton, since resident in <a href="/wiki/Spaxton" title="Spaxton">Spaxton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Over_Stowey" title="Over Stowey">Over Stowey</a> and Taunton<a href="#cite_note-187">[187]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Trenchard,_1st_Viscount_Trenchard" title="Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard">Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard</a> (1873–1956), Taunton-born military officer involved in founding the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a><a href="#cite_note-188">[188]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Trescothick" title="Marcus Trescothick">Marcus Trescothick</a> (born 1975), England cricketer, recipient of the Taunton Deane Citizenship Award in 2005<a href="#cite_note-189">[189]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Charles_Trevelyan,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet">Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet</a> (1807–1886), Governor of Madras, born in Taunton<a href="#cite_note-190">[190]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Turle" title="James Turle">James Turle</a> (1802–1882) an organist and composer.<a href="#cite_note-191">[191]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Vickery_(chef)" title="Phil Vickery (chef)">Phil Vickery</a> 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Wales and a Conservative MP<a href="#cite_note-195">[195]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Twinning">Twinning</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Taunton&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Twinning">edit</a>]</div> Taunton is <a href="/wiki/Sister_city" title="Sister city">twinned</a> with: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lisieux" title="Lisieux">Lisieux</a>, France<a href="#cite_note-196">[196]</a><a href="#cite_note-TauntonCouncilTwinning-197">[197]</a> – since 1951</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6nigslutter" title="Königslutter">Königslutter</a>, Germany<a href="#cite_note-198">[198]</a><a href="#cite_note-TauntonCouncilTwinning-197">[197]</a> – since 1992</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taunton,_Massachusetts" title="Taunton, Massachusetts">Taunton, Massachusetts</a>, United States[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a 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Somerset">Chard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clevedon" title="Clevedon">Clevedon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crewkerne" title="Crewkerne">Crewkerne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dulverton" title="Dulverton">Dulverton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frome" title="Frome">Frome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glastonbury" title="Glastonbury">Glastonbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highbridge,_Somerset" title="Highbridge, Somerset">Highbridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilminster" title="Ilminster">Ilminster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keynsham" title="Keynsham">Keynsham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langport" title="Langport">Langport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midsomer_Norton" title="Midsomer Norton">Midsomer Norton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minehead" title="Minehead">Minehead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nailsea" title="Nailsea">Nailsea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Petherton" title="North Petherton">North Petherton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portishead,_Somerset" title="Portishead, Somerset">Portishead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radstock" title="Radstock">Radstock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shepton_Mallet" title="Shepton Mallet">Shepton Mallet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somerton,_Somerset" title="Somerton, Somerset">Somerton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Street,_Somerset" title="Street, Somerset">Street</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Taunton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Watchet" title="Watchet">Watchet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wellington,_Somerset" title="Wellington, Somerset">Wellington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wells,_Somerset" title="Wells, Somerset">Wells</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weston-super-Mare" title="Weston-super-Mare">Weston-super-Mare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wincanton" title="Wincanton">Wincanton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wiveliscombe" title="Wiveliscombe">Wiveliscombe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yeovil" title="Yeovil">Yeovil</a> See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_civil_parishes_in_Somerset" title="List of civil parishes in Somerset">List of civil parishes in Somerset</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rivers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/River_Alham" title="River Alham">Alham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Aller" title="River Aller">Aller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Avill" title="River Avill">Avill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Avon,_Bristol" title="River Avon, Bristol">Avon</a></li> <li>Axe rivers <ul><li><a href="/wiki/River_Axe_(Bristol_Channel)" title="River Axe (Bristol Channel)">Bristol Channel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Axe_(Lyme_Bay)" title="River Axe (Lyme Bay)">Lyme Bay</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Badgworthy_Water" title="Badgworthy Water">Badgworthy Water</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Banwell" title="River Banwell">Banwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Barle" title="River 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title="List of museums in Somerset">Museums</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_national_nature_reserves_in_Somerset" title="List of national nature reserves in Somerset">National nature reserves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Parliamentary_constituencies_in_Somerset" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Parliamentary constituencies in Somerset">Parliamentary constituencies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_Somerset" title="List of places in Somerset">Places</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_settlements_in_Somerset_by_population" title="List of settlements in Somerset by population">Population of major settlements</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scheduled_monuments_in_Somerset" title="Scheduled monuments in Somerset">Scheduled monuments</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_schools_in_Somerset" title="List of schools in Somerset">Schools</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Sites_of_Special_Scientific_Interest_in_Somerset" title="List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset">SSSIs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transport_in_Somerset" title="Transport in Somerset">Transport in Somerset</a> Geographic areas: <a href="/wiki/Blackdown_Hills" title="Blackdown Hills">Blackdown Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brendon_Hills" title="Brendon Hills">Brendon Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chew_Valley" title="Chew Valley">Chew Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exmoor" title="Exmoor">Exmoor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mendip_Hills" title="Mendip Hills">Mendip Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polden_Hills" title="Polden Hills">Polden Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quantock_Hills" title="Quantock Hills">Quantock Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somerset_Levels" title="Somerset Levels">Somerset Levels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_West_Coast_Path" title="South West Coast Path">South West Coast Path</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Somerset_Coast_Path" title="West Somerset Coast Path">West Somerset Coast Path</a></li></ul> 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