Taunton is the county town of Somerset, England.

Taunton may also refer to:

Places

Australia

  • Taunton, Queensland, a locality
  • Taunton National Park, a scientific national park in Queensland
  • County of Taunton, a cadastral division in South Australia
  • Taunton, South Australia, a locality

United Kingdom

  • Taunton (UK Parliament constituency), a former parliamentary constituency in Somerset
  • Taunton Deane, a former local government district with borough status in Somerset
  • Taunton Stop Line, a World War II defensive line in south west England
  • Taunton Racecourse, located near the town from which it takes its name
  • Taunton, Greater Manchester, a suburb of Ashton-under-Lyne

United States

  • Taunton, Massachusetts
  • Taunton, Minnesota
  • Taunton, New York
  • Taunton, Washington
  • Taunton River, historically called the Taunton Great River, a river in southern Massachusetts

People

  • Taunton (surname)
  • Baron Taunton, defunct British peerage title

Other

  • Taunton train fire, a fire in an English sleeping car train on 6 July 1978
  • Taunton Period, a British Bronze Age metalworking period, see Penard Period
  • Taunton Press
  • The Siege of Taunton, during the English Civil War
  • Taunton's Grammar School Southampton, see Highfield, Hampshire

See also

  • Tauntaun, a fictional creature in the Star Wars universe
  • Saunton, a village in north Devon, England<!--sometimes mistaken for Taunton-->
  • Tawstock, a village in north Devon, England