Taunton
noun
1.
a city in SE Massachusetts.
2.
former name of Taunton Deane.
noun
1.
a market town in SW England, administrative centre of Somerset: scene of Judge Jeffreys’ “Bloody Assize” (1685) after the Battle of Sedgemoor. Pop: 58 241 (2001)
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