20 August 2025 - Newsletter
Taunton Policing Newsletter August 2025
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Welcome to Norton Fitzwarren
Norton Fitzwarren is an English civil parish within the unitary authority of Somerset
Settlement at Norton Fitzwarren is ancient. There is evidence of occupation in the Stone Age and going back 3 millennia to the Bronze Age.
The hill fort was fortified with earthworks that were rebuilt when it was enlarged in the Iron Age. Settlement here may have been continuous since Roman remains have also been found on more than one site in the Parish. Norton therefore is much older than the nearby town of Taunton, which recently celebrated 1100 years since the granting of its Charter and was founded by the Saxon King Ina (688-726).
The name Fitzwarren was added in the period following the Norman Conquest when the manor was held by Fulke Fitz-Guarine (the son of Guarine), which became anglicised to Fitzwarren. Norton is a “ton”, that is settlement, to the north: presumably because it is north of the river Tone, whereas the old town of Taunton was originally to the south.
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18 July 2025 - Newsletter
Illegally felled tree in Children’s play park
Update for the illegally felled tree in the play park in Apple Tree Close
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9 July 2025 - Newsletter
Somerset Rivers Authority July report
Latest report from Somerset Rivers Authority
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Population Estimate
2561
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Somerset
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South East
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England
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01823
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