Taunton (gbr)

Taunton

Taunton ranks 3,127th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Burnaby, South Orange, New Jersey, and East Meadow, New York. Memorable people born in Taunton include Pattie Boyd, James Purefoy, and Frederick Copleston. Memorable people who died in Taunton include Molly Peters. Taunton has been the birth place of many actors and models and the death place of many actors. Taunton is located in United Kingdom.

Taunton is the county town of Somerset, England. It is a market town and has a minster church. Its population in 2011 was 64,621. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, Taunton Castle, which later became a priory. The Normans built a castle owned by the Bishops of Winchester. 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 in Taunton the Duke of Monmouth crowned himself King of England in a rebellion, defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor. Judge Jeffreys led the Bloody Assizes in the Castle's Great Hall. Read more on Wikipedia