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Team, Place & City Details

Taunton Town F.C.

Taunton Town Football Club are an English football club based in Taunton, Somerset. They compete in the National League South and play their home matches at the Cygnet Health Care Stadium which they moved into during the 1953 season.

Hungerford Town F.C.

Hungerford Town Football Club is a football club based in Hungerford, Berkshire, England. Affiliated to the Berks & Bucks Football Association, they are currently members of the National League South, the sixth tier of English football, and play at Bulpit Lane.

Taunton
Taunton

Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England, with a 2011 population of 69,570. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, Taunton Castle, which later became a priory.

Taunton, Massachusetts
Taunton, Massachusetts

Taunton is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the seat of Bristol County.

Taunton National Park

Taunton National Park is situated near the town of Dingo approximately 135 km inland from Rockhampton in eastern Central Queensland, Australia. The park encompasses an area of 11,626 ha within the Northern Brigalow Belt bioregion of Queensland; a region widely recognised to contain considerable biodiversity.Taunton National Park is designated as a strictly scientific nature reserve due to its importance in ensuring the ongoing survival and protection of the endangered bridled nail-tail wallaby (Onychogalea fraenata).

Taunton Deane
Taunton Deane

Taunton Deane was a local government district with borough status in Somerset, England. Its council was based in Taunton.

Taunton (UK Parliament constituency)
Taunton (UK Parliament constituency)

Taunton was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and its predecessors from 1295 to 2010, taking its name from the town of Taunton in Somerset. Until 1918, it was a parliamentary borough, electing two Member of Parliaments between 1295 and 1885 and one from 1885 to 1918; the name was then transferred to a county constituency, electing one MP. In the boundary changes that came into effect at the general election of 2010, the Boundary Commission for England replaced Taunton with a modified constituency called Taunton Deane, to reflect the district name.

Taunton railway station
Taunton railway station

Taunton railway station is a junction station on the route from London to Penzance, 143 miles west of London Paddington station. It is situated in Taunton, Somerset, and is operated by Great Western Railway.

Taunton Deane (UK Parliament constituency)
Taunton Deane (UK Parliament constituency)

Taunton Deane is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Rebecca Pow of the Conservative Party.

Taunton Deane Borough Council elections

Taunton Deane Borough Council in Somerset, England was elected every four years. The first elections to the council were held in 1973, ahead of it coming into being in 1974.

Taunton, Massachusetts minor league baseball history

Minor league baseball teams were based in Taunton, Massachusetts between 1897 and 1933. Taunton teams played as members of the New England League from 1896 to 1899 and 1905, the Atlantic Association in 1908, Colonial League in 1914 and 1915 and the New England League in 1933.

Hungerford
Hungerford

Hungerford is a historic market town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, 8 miles west of Newbury, 9 miles (14 km) east of Marlborough, 27 miles (43 km) northeast of Salisbury and 60 miles (97 km) west of London. The Kennet and Avon Canal passes through the town from the west alongside the River Dun, a major tributary of the River Kennet.

Hungerford massacre

The Hungerford massacre was a series of random shootings in Hungerford, England, United Kingdom on 19 August 1987, when 27-year-old Michael Robert Ryan, an unemployed former labourer, shot dead 16 people, including an unarmed police officer and his own mother, before shooting himself. The shootings, committed using a handgun and two semi-automatic rifles, occurred at several locations, including a school he had once attended.