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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. 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 the Duke of Monmouth crowned himself King of England here in a rebellion defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor. Judge Jeffreys led the Bloody Assizes in the Castle's Great Hall. The Grand Western Canal reached Taunton in 1839 and the Bristol and Exeter Railway in 1842. Today it hosts Musgrove Park Hospital,Somerset County Cricket Club and the base of 40 Commando,Royal Marines. Taunton flower show has been held in Vivary Park since 1866. The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office is in Admiralty Way.
Wellington is a small market town in rural Somerset,a county in the west of England,situated 7 miles (11 km) south west of Taunton in the Somerset West and Taunton district,near the border with Devon,which runs along the Blackdown Hills to the south of the town. The town has a population of 14,549,which includes the residents of the parish of Wellington Without,and the villages of Tone and Tonedale.
Jeremy William Lloyds is an English former cricket umpire.
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Oliver Benjamin Cox is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Worcestershire as right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper.
Royston Cyril John Sully,played one List A Cricket match for Somerset in the 1985 season.
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Alfred Edward Bailey was a professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Somerset from 1900 to 1911 as a lower-order right-handed batsman and a slow left-arm spin bowler.
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Steven Paul Jenkins is an English cricketer. Jenkins is a right-handed batsman who plays primarily as a wicketkeeper. He was born at Taunton,Somerset.
Herbert Temlett Gamlin,known as Octopus Gamlin,played in 15 rugby union internationals for England between 1899 and 1904 as a full-back. He also played first-class cricket for Somerset in 1895 and 1896. He was born at West Buckland,Somerset and died at North Cheam,Surrey.
Raymond Thomas Albert Windsor played first-class and List A cricket for Somerset in 1969. He was born at Wellington,Somerset.
Harry George Tate was an English cricketer who played one first-class cricket match for Somerset in 1882. He may have played more,but his work on the railways took him away from Taunton weeks after his sole appearance. He played as a batsman,and became a mainstay of the Caversham Cricket Club for two decades once he'd moved to Reading.
Matthew Jack Leach is an English cricketer who plays for Somerset County Cricket Club and England. A spin bowler,he bowls left-arm orthodox spin,and bats left-handed. He made his first-class debut for Cardiff MCC University against Somerset in 2012 before making his debut for Somerset in the tour match against the South Africans later in the summer.
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