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Taunton
Memorial fountain to Queen Victoria in Vivary Park, with the keep of the Jellalabad Barracks in the background, Taunton, Somerset, Eng.
Taunton
England, United Kingdom
Taunton, town, Taunton Deane borough (district), administrative and historic county of Somerset, southwestern England. It lies on the River Tone and is the administrative centre for the borough.
An Anglo-Saxon king founded it about 710. Its castle was besieged during the English Civil Wars and subsequently dismantled. Taunton later was the scene of the duke of Monmouth’s rebellion in 1685. It is in an agricultural region; tourism is also important to the economy. Pop. (2001) 58,241; (2011) 60,479.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Kenneth Pletcher.
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