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Taunton
Somerset, South West · population 60,479 · Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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Taunton is the county town of Somerset, England. It is a market town and has a minster church. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, owned by the Bishops of Winchester, which was rebuilt as Taunton Castle by the Normans in the 12th century. Parts of the inner ward house were turned into the Museum of Somerset and Somerset Military Museum. For the Second Cornish uprising of 1497, Perkin Warbeck brought an army of 6,000; most surrendered to Henry VII on 4 October 1497. On 20 June 1685, the Duke of Monmouth crowned himself King of England in Taunton in the failed Monmouth Rebellion. Judge Jeffreys led the Bloody Assizes in the Castle's Great Hall.
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View allChard Arm Junction
Creech St Michael · 2.5 miles
Site of the junction with the now gone side canal to Chard
RAF Culmhead (Scheduled Monument)
Churchstanton · 6.2 miles
Extant remains of fighter pens, shelters, hangars, control towers and taxiways associated with a disused WWII fighter station.
Combe Florey War Memorial
Combe Florey · 6.2 miles
Boxed Latin cross on square plinth, rising from sloping base and platform.
Lydeard St. Lawrence War Memorial
Lydeard St Lawrence · 7.5 miles
Tapering square shaft on a tapered square base, surmounted by a boxed Latin cross.
Brompton Ralph War Memorial
Brompton Ralph · 9.9 miles
Celtic cross in granite on a granite plinth with a concrete base.
John Stringfellow Monument
South Chard · 12 miles
Memorial to the work of John Stringfellow who built and flew the first powered aeroplane in 1848.
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