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Bridgwater Town Council, which is based at Bridgwater Town Hall, was created in 2003, [65] with sixteen elected members representing six wards of the town; Bower (three), Eastover (two), Hamp (three), Quantock (three), Sydenham (three) and Victoria (two). With powers or functions over allotments, bus shelters, making of byelaws, cemeteries ...
Wembdon is a semi-rural area of Bridgwater on the town’s outskirts, in Somerset, England. Wembdon is now home to an Anglican church, a small shop (combined with the post office), a pub and a small garage.
After the trade unionists of Bridgwater's brick and tile industry went on strike in July 1896, the concert hall was used as an assembly point for the police and the troops from the Gloucestershire Regiment: the Salisbury government read the Riot Act to the strikers and then sent the troops into the town to clear the barricades by force. [6]
The Sedgemoor district was established in 1974 and was based in Bridgwater. It covers a mostly rural area between the Quantock Hills and the Mendip Hills. The council, along with Somerset County Council , was replaced in April 2023 by Somerset Council , a unitary authority .
Following the implementation of Local Government Act 1972 in March 1974, Bridgwater Borough Council was abolished, and Charter Trustees were created, drawn from the 16 councillors elected to Sedgemoor District Council in Somerset, England, that represented the borough wards, who maintained the continuity of the town's legal status until such time as a parish council was established.
The TA postcode area, also known as the Taunton postcode area, [2] is a group of 24 postcode districts in South West England, within 19 post towns.These cover western Somerset (including Taunton, Bridgwater, Burnham-on-Sea, Chard, Crewkerne, Dulverton, Highbridge, Hinton St George, Ilminster, Langport, Martock, Merriott, Minehead, Montacute, Somerton, South Petherton, Stoke-sub-Hamdon, Watchet ...
Bridgwater, town and civil parish in Somerset Bridgwater (UK Parliament constituency) which existed from 1885 to 2010; Bridgwater and West Somerset (UK Parliament constituency), current constituency for this area; RHS Garden Bridgewater, Greater Manchester; Bridgewater, Banbridge, a development in County Down, Northern Ireland
Greinton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the Somerset Levels and Moors at the foot of the Polden Hills, 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) west southwest of Glastonbury and 7 miles (11 km) east of Bridgwater.