West Monkton
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| West Monkton | |
  West Monkton shown within Somerset |
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| Population | 2,439[1] |
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| OS grid reference | |
| District | Taunton Deane |
| Shire county | Somerset |
| Region | South West |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | TAUNTON |
| Postcode district | TA2 |
| Dialling code | 01823 |
| Police | Avon and Somerset |
| Fire | Devon and Somerset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| European Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | Taunton |
| List of places: UK • England • Somerset | |
West Monkton is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated two miles north east of Taunton in the Taunton Deane district. The village has a population of 2,439.[1] The parish includes the hamlet of Burlinch.
The parish church of St Augustine has an 88 foot tower, four stories, with no pinnacles or fancy tracery on the windows, giving the tower a slender, austere look compared to the medieval Somerset Towers of churches in nearby Taunton, for example. Nickolaus Pevsner proposes that St. Augustine's tower is older than the surrounding church towers, with a tower arch that may date to 1300 as part of a previous church building. [2]
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[edit] References
- ^ a b 2002 Population estimates. Somerset County Council. Retrieved on 2008-04-11.
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (2003). The Buildings of England -- South and West Somerset. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300096445.
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