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Taunton| City and administrative headquarters of Bristol County, southeastern Massachusetts, on the Taunton River, 55 km/34 mi south of Boston; population (2001 est) 56,400. Heavy manufacturing has included locomotives and printing presses. Electronics, leather, plastics, and kitchen ranges are also produced. The city has wooded rural parts containing several state parks as well as its industrial core. It was incorporated in 1639. |
| Colonial Taunton had a gristmill, sawmill, and ironworks (1652). In the 1800s industries include the manufacture of bricks, textiles, ships, and stoves. Iron, copper, and silver industries flourished from the 1820s. Taunton was a base of operations during King Philip's War (1675–76) involving Philip, the chief of the Wampanoag people, and centre of Revolutionary sentiment in the 1770s. |
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1966Agutter, JennyApril 10births and deathsBristol CountyChardDaniel, SamuelDu Cann, Edward Dillon LotDulvertonEastonFall RiverFoster, William ZebulonHewish, AntonyHollick, Clive RichardIlminsterJames of Rusholme, Eric John Francis James, Baron James of RusholmeMackendrick, Paul LachlanMassachusettsMullett, Alfred B | Blue Chip Vacations has two properties, Woodpecker Lodge and House Martins at Kingston St Mary, near Taunton, Somerset, a short distance from Bishops Lydeard station, where a non-stop steam train service will run to Dunster on the evening of December 4. Knowles, who presents the BBC's DIY SOS and Wildest Dreams, was travelling to work on the B3227 close to Norton Fitzwarren, near Taunton, Somerset, when he noticed an overturned black Ford Mondeo in a field. Police confirmed they were called to an incident just off the B3227, close to Norton Fitzwarren, near Taunton, Somerset, at 9. |
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