(Suburban Area)
Traditional county: Somerset · Region: South West
Explore North Town, Somerset with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the North Town map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
| Place | North Town |
| Traditional County | Somerset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.018778 |
| Longitude | -3.106469 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
North Town offers a quiet promise of settled life, a place where the ordinary hums with a gentle, persistent beauty. It lies 0.6 km north-north-east of Taunton (from Taunton: bearing 11°T, OS grid ST 224 249). The land here, gently sloping, catches the afternoon sun with a pale, buttery light that lingers on the well-tended gardens and the modest, brick-built homes. A sense of continuity pervades North Town, a feeling that life has flowed here for generations, marked by the changing seasons and the predictable turning of the week. The air, carrying the faint scent of damp earth from nearby fields, often whispers with the distant murmur of traffic from the larger town, a reminder of the world beyond this peaceful enclave.
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Explore North Town, Somerset, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.018778, -3.106469. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | June 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |