Area Guide

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Bishop’s Hull is a village situated in the western suburbs of Taunton in the Somerset. It includes the areas of Rumwell, Rumwell Park, Roughmoor and Longaller and is close to the River Tone....

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Set 5 miles north west of Taunton, the village is thought to have been named after Gisa, a former Bishop of Wells, listed in the Doomsday book of 1086 as one of the principal landowners of the...

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Firepool is a town Centre development, off Priory Bridge Road, Taunton.  Somerset West and Taunton Council are redeveloping the vacant former cattle market site.  It is expected that a cinema,...

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Monkton Heathfield is a hamlet in the parish of West Monkton, situated 2 miles (3.2 km) north east of Taunton. Monks from Glastonbury Abbey gave the village its name Monkton.

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Norton Fitzwarren is a village located 2 miles North West of Taunton. During World War 2 it was the location of a POW camp and in more recent time, for many years was the site of the Taunton...

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Staplegrove is located in the county of Somerset, South West England, one mile north-west of the town of Taunton, 23 miles south of the major town of Weston-Super-Mare, 31 miles south of...

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The county town of Somerset, Taunton is situated 38 miles south west of Bristol, 28 miles north east of Exeter and 151 miles south west of London. The name is derived from Saxon times, ‘Tone...