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MIDSOMER NORTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 424 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MIDSOMER

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NORTON  , an
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urban
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district in the
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northern
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parliamentary
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division of
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Somersetshire,
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England, 122 M . S.S.W. of
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Bath. on the
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Somerset &
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Dorset and the
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Great Western
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railways . Pop . (1901), 5809 . The
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town is pleasantly situated in a hilly district, between two branches of the small
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river Somer . The
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church of St
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John the Baptist, principally Perpendicular, has in its
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tower three bells presented by
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Charles II . Both this town and the adjacent urban district of RADSTOCK (pop . 3355) have a considerable
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trade in
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coal, which is
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mined in the vicinity . The coalfield extends
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north-westward towards
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Bristol, and is of great importance to the manufactures of that
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city .

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