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

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