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Thurloxton
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Thurloxton is a village and civil parish north-east of Taunton, and 5 miles south-west of Bridgwater on the south-eastern slopes of the Quantock Hills in the county of Somerset, England.
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Vinony's link graph records 73 inbound references to Thurloxton, and connects out to England, list of sovereign states and geographic coordinate system.
It sits within the topics Civil parishes in Somerset and Villages in Sedgemoor.
Vinony links it to 9 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Thurloxton
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Thurloxton
- UK place.population
- 153
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.unitary_england
- Somerset Council
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Somerset
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Bridgwater
- UK place.post_town
- Taunton
- UK place.postcode_district
- TA2
- UK place.postcode_area
- TA
- UK place.dial_code
- 01823
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- ST275305
- UK place.static_image_name
- St. Giles church, Thurloxton - geograph.org.uk - 159639.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Giles church
- UK place.static_image_2_name
- Buildings in Thurloxton - geograph.org.uk - 1586873.jpg
- UK place.static_image_alt
- Beyond the pair of red stone semis is the village hall.
- UK place.static_image_2_caption
- Buildings in Thurloxton
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Somerset
- Population
- 153
- Image
- St. Giles church, Thurloxton - geograph.org.uk - 159639.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01823
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- Commons category
- Thurloxton
- postal code
- TA2
- OS grid reference
- ST275305
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Governance
- Religious sites
- References
- External links
Thurloxton is a village and civil parish north-east of Taunton, and 5 miles south-west of Bridgwater on the south-eastern slopes of the Quantock Hills in the county of Somerset, England.
==History== The name means 'Through the animal pen' from the Old English purh and locian, or alternatively "Thurlac's tun", the holding of the original Saxon owner Thurlac.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thurloxton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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