Norton Radstock is the name of a former parish council that covered the conurbation of Midsomer Norton,

Radstock Radstock is a town and civil parish on the northern slope of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England, about south-west of Bath and north-west of Frome. It is within the area of the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset. The Radstoc ...

and Westfield, in the

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ceremonial county of

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. Created in 1974 as a large

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, it was abolished in 2011 and replaced by three smaller parishes. The conurbation is within the area of the

unitary authority A unitary authority is a local authority responsible for all local government functions within its area or performing additional functions that elsewhere are usually performed by a higher level of sub-national government or the national governmen ...

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, south west of Bath, and the same distance north west of

Frome Frome ( ) is a town and civil parish in eastern Somerset, England. The town is built on uneven high ground at the eastern end of the Mendip Hills, and centres on the River Frome. The town, about south of Bath, is the largest in the Mendip d ...

. It had a population of 21,325 at the 2001 census. The term Norton Radstock is not recognised by local residents, nor does it appear on any road map. Besides the towns of Midsomer Norton and Radstock and the parish of Westfield, the parish encompassed the smaller settlements of Clandown, Haydon, Welton and

Writhlington Writhlington is a suburb of Radstock and north-west of Frome in the Bath and North East Somerset district of Somerset, England. History The ancient parish of Writhlington was part of the Kilmersdon Hundred. Church The parish church was dedic ...

. Norton Radstock was twinned with

Ambarès-et-Lagrave Ambarès-et-Lagrave (; ''Ambarés e La Grava'' in Gascon dialect) is a commune in the Gironde department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Ambarésiens'' or ''Ambarésiennes' ...

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from September 1982.

Governance

The parish was created in 1974 as a successor to the Norton-Radstock urban district which had been created in 1933 by the merger of Midsomer Norton and Radstock urban districts, along with part of

Frome Rural District Frome was a rural district in Somerset, England, from 1894 to 1974. The district was created in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894. It was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 when it became part of the district of M ...

. Under the Local Government Act 1972 it became a

successor parish Successor parishes are civil parishes with a parish council, created in England in 1974. They replaced, with the same boundaries, a selected group of urban districts and municipal boroughs: a total of 300 successor parishes were formed from the ...

to the urban district. Following a Governance Review in 2010, the council was replaced in 2011 by separate town councils for Midsomer Norton and

, and a parish council for Westfield. Norton Radstock was governed by the

and by Norton Radstock Town Council, which elected 14 councillors across the four wards of Midsomer Norton North, Midsomer Norton Redfield, Radstock and Westfield. It was part of the North East Somerset constituency, which elects a

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to the

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References

{{Somerset Former civil parishes in Somerset Somerset coalfield Urban areas of England Midsomer Norton Radstock