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is a small industrial town in rural Somerset, England,
situated seven miles south west of Taunton in the Taunton
Deane district, near the border with Devon, which runs
along the Blackdown Hills to the south of the town. The
town has a population of 13,696.[1] It has many dependent
villages including West Buckland, Langford Budville, Nynehead,
Sampford Arundel and Sampford Moor. Rockwell Green is
a formerly-independent village to the West of the town
and while there is a green belt of land in between them,
many consider it to be part of the town.
In the 1970s, housing
developments happened on the South side of the town,
prompted by its proximity to Junction 26 of the M5 motorway.
The town had its
own railway station until the Beeching Report of 1963
which closed hundreds of the UK's provincial railway
stations. The main Great Western Main Line from Penzance
to London, and also to Bristol and the North, runs past
the town, but no trains stop.
Wellington gave
its name to the first Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley,
and boasts a large obelix to his honour, spotlit, on
top of the closest hill to the town, the Wellington
Monument. This is now separated from the town by the
major motorway in the South-West, the M5. Because of
this, Wellington, Somerset can have a legitimate claim
to have contributed to the more widespread use of the
term in other place names and, of course, the Wellington
Boot.
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