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- Taunton Deane was a local government district with borough status in Somerset, England. It merged with West Somerset to form Somerset West and Taunton on 1 April 2019. Its council was based in Taunton. The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by a merger of the Municipal Borough of Taunton, Wellington Urban District, Taunton Rural District, and Wellington Rural District. Taunton Deane was granted borough status in 1975, enabling the mayoralty of Taunton to be continued, when other districts did not have mayors. The district was given the name of an alternate form of the Taunton Deane Hundred. A scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or monument which is given legal protection by being placed on a list (or "schedule") by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; English Heritage takes the leading role in identifying such sites. The legislation governing this is the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The term "monument" can apply to the whole range of archaeological sites, and they are not always visible above ground. Such sites have to have been deliberately constructed by human activity. They range from prehistoric standing stones and burial sites, through Roman remains and Medieval structures such as castles and monasteries, to later structures such as industrial sites and buildings constructed for the World Wars or the Cold War. There are 33 scheduled monuments in Taunton Deane. Many of them are Neolithic through to the Bronze and Iron Ages such as bowl barrows, cairns along with hill forts such as Norton Camp. Castle Neroche was an Iron Age hill fort which was reused as a Norman motte-and-bailey castle. Burrow Mump shows evidence of Roman use but is better known as a Norman motte-and-bailey castle, and later church. It was presented, in 1946, by Major Alexander Gould Barrett, to the National Trust to serve as a memorial to the 11,281 Somerset men who lost their lives during the first and second world wars. The Medieval period is represented by several churchyard crosses. The defensive walls and part of Taunton Castle, which has Anglo-Saxon origins and was expanded during the Medieval and Tudor eras, is included. More recent sites include Poundisford Park, Buckland Priory, Bradford Bridge and a duck decoy from the 17th century. Some of the sites such as Balt Moor Wall are of uncertain date; however the most recent are air traffic control buildings, pillboxes and fighter pens from RAF Culmhead, situated at Churchstanton on the Blackdown Hills. The monuments are listed below using the titles given in the English Heritage data sheets. (en)
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- Two bowl barrows in a line which form part of the larger Bronze Age cemetery on the Blackdown Hills known as Robin Hood's Butts. (en)
- Two bowl barrows which form part of the larger Bronze Age cemetery on the Blackdown Hills known as Robin Hood's Butts. (en)
- Taunton Castle has origins in the Anglo Saxon period and was later the site of a priory. The Normans then built a stone structured castle, which belonged to the Bishops of Winchester. The current heavily reconstructed buildings are the inner ward, which now houses the Museum of Somerset and the Somerset Military Museum. (en)
- A 15th century stone bridge with two arches, carrying a road over the River Tone. (en)
- An irregular bowl barrow, long and wide surrounded by a ditch. (en)
- Two crosses, one of hamstone and the other red sandstone. The cross nearest the church has a 19th century base holding the cross shaft which is from the 14th century. The second cross has a carving of John the Baptist on the east face. (en)
- The remains of a section of medieval causeway, which now forms a raised embankment between and wide and up to high. (en)
- A bowl barrow with a diameter of and high. (en)
- A bowl barrow, in diameter and in height. (en)
- An area approximately by opposite the priory which contains the remains of three fishponds. The ponds were probably dug in the 13th century and were filled in by 1725. (en)
- Two bowl barrows and a cairn, which has a higher proportion of stone than soil, all dating from the Bronze Age. Each is around in diameter and high. (en)
- An irregular oval bowl barrow which is long, wide and approximately high, surrounded by a wide ditch which has since been filled in. (en)
- A medieval cross on an octagonal base. The shaft is approximately high but the head is missing. (en)
- Two cairns on Wills Neck the highest point of the Quantock Hills. (en)
- A group of blast pens built to protect fighter aircraft during World War II. (en)
- A Bronze Age cairn close to Wills Neck the highest point of the Quantock Hills. It is in diameter and high. (en)
- A medieval cross on an octagonal base. The shaft is approximately high. The decorated lantern head was added as part of restoration in 1908. (en)
- The World War II control towers for the airfield. One which was known as the Old Watch Office is slightly older and a second built to replace it. (en)
- Three Bronze Age cairns close to Wills Neck the highest point of the Quantock Hills. They range from to in diameter. There is a Triangulation station on the easternmost cairn. (en)
- King's Castle is a Neolithic hillfort surrounded by two banks with a ditch between them. The inner wall ranges up to high and the outer wall gets up to high. Arrowheads, scrapers, and borers have been found at the site. (en)
- The park surrounding Poundisford Park covers around including of gardens and pleasure grounds, and which were enclosed within the medieval park pale, which formed an elliptical shape, of which remains as parkland today. The park pale was a barrier to contain deer made of an earthen bank from to wide and up to high. It is on the Heritage at Risk Register. (en)
- Five round barrows in a line which form part of the larger Bronze Age cemetery on the Blackdown Hills known as Robin Hood's Butts. (en)
- Sited on a hill where the River Tone and the old course of the River Cary join the River Parrett, above the surrounding low lying land of the Somerset Levels. Archeological surveys have shown some Roman material and three medieval pits. It is likely that it was a Norman motte which may have been built during The Anarchy between 1135 and 1153. A medieval church dedicated to St Michael, belonging to the Athelney Abbey, dates from at least the mid 15th century. In 1793, the church was rebuilt. The hill and ruined roofless nave with the remains of the porch, some window openings without tracery were presented, in 1946, to the National Trust and serve as a memorial to the 11,281 Somerset men who lost their lives during the first and second world wars. (en)
- Duck decoy from the 17th century. The oval pool is now by . (en)
- Two pillboxes dating from World War II which protected the airfield. (en)
- Two bowl barrows one of diameter and the other of . Each is approximately high. (en)
- Two Bowl barrows on Wills Neck the highest point of the Quantock Hills. (en)
- A Bowl barrow which is in diameter and high on which a folly was built in the 18th century. The folly tower was destroyed in 1910. (en)
- Castles Camp is a univallate Iron Age hill fort. It covers an area of surrounded by a bank and ditch. (en)
- A Norman motte-and-bailey castle on the site of an earlier Iron Age hill fort. The castle was probably built by Robert, Count of Mortain in the 11th century. (en)
- The remains of medieval town walls. It now forms a bank and ditch around high and wide. (en)
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- Taunton Deane was a local government district with borough status in Somerset, England. It merged with West Somerset to form Somerset West and Taunton on 1 April 2019. Its council was based in Taunton. The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by a merger of the Municipal Borough of Taunton, Wellington Urban District, Taunton Rural District, and Wellington Rural District. Taunton Deane was granted borough status in 1975, enabling the mayoralty of Taunton to be continued, when other districts did not have mayors. The district was given the name of an alternate form of the Taunton Deane Hundred. (en)
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- Scheduled monuments in Taunton Deane (en)
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