Taunton Deane
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| Borough of Taunton Deane | |
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| Image:SomersetTauntonDeane.png Shown within Somerset | |
| Geography | |
| Status: | District |
| Region: | South West England |
| Admin. County: | Somerset |
| Area: - Total | Ranked 107th 462.36 km² |
| Admin. HQ: | Taunton |
| ONS code: | 40UE |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2004 est.) - Density | Ranked 208th 106,000 229 / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 98.4% White |
| Politics | |
| Taunton Deane Borough Council http://www.tauntondeane.gov.uk/ | |
| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | Conservative |
| MP: | Jeremy Browne |
Taunton Deane is a local government district with borough status in Somerset, England. Its council is based in Taunton.
The district was formed on April 1, 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by a merger of the municipal borough of Taunton, Wellington urban district, Taunton Rural District, and Wellington Rural District.
Taunton Deane's control of Wellington is opposed by some in the town, who feel that the town is big enough to be looked after by its own mayor, and have its own town council & parliamentry seats.
The district was given the name of an alternate form of the Taunton hundred.
Settlements
Settlements in bold have a town charter or a population over 2,500.
- Ash Priors - Ashbrittle
- Bathealton - Bickenhall - Bishops Hull - Bishops Lydeard - Bradford on Tone - Burrowbridge
- Cheddon Fitzpaine - Chipstable - Churchstanton - Combe Florey - Comeytrowe - Corfe - Cothelstone - Creech St Michael - Curland
- Durston
- Fitzhead
- Halse - Hatch Beauchamp
- Kingston St Mary
- Langford Budville - Lydeard St Lawrence
- Milverton
- North Curry - Norton Fitzwarren - Nynehead
- Oake - Orchard Portman - Otterford
- Pitminster
- Ruishton
- Sampford Arundel - Staple Fitzpaine - Staplegrove - Stawley - Stoke St Gregory - Stoke St Mary
- Taunton - Thornfalcon - Tolland - Trull
- Wellington - West Bagborough - West Buckland - West Monkton - Wiveliscombe
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