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
- Baron Taunton, defunct British peerage title
- Ethelred Taunton, English Roman Catholic priest
- Kristen Taunton, Canadian field hockey player
- Larry Taunton, American author
- Mack Taunton, vocalist
- Peter Taunton, CEO of Snap Fitness
- Scott Taunton, media executive
- Sussan Taunton, Chilean actress
- William de Taunton, medieval Bishop of Winchester
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
- Tawstock, a village in north Devon, England
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