Somerton may refer to:
Places
Australia
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Somerton, New South Wales
Somerton is a village between Tamworth and Gunnedah on the Oxley Highway in northern New South Wales Australia. In the , there were 277 people in Somerton. Somerton Village adjoins the plentiful Peel River.
The area surrounding Somerton is a ...
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Somerton Park, South Australia
Somerton Park is a seaside suburb of Adelaide in South Australia. The mainly residential suburb is home to the Somerton Park Beach, Sacred Heart College and North Brighton Cemetery.
History
Somerton Park Post Office opened on 1 July 1947 and c ...
, a seaside Adelaide suburb
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Somerton Man
The Somerton Man was an unidentified man whose body was found on 1 December 1948 on the beach at Somerton Park, South Australia, Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The case is also known after the Persian language, Persian ph ...
, unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead in 1948 on the Somerton Park beach
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Somerton, Victoria
Somerton is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hume local government area. Somerton recorded a population of 6 at the 2021 census.
Somerton is predominantly ...
United Kingdom
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Somerton, Newport
Somerton is an area in the south-east of Newport. The northern half of the area is located in the Alway ward with the southern half in the Lliswerry ward – The two halves being separated by the Great Western Main Line. Somerton has a local Pr ...
, Wales
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Somerton, Norfolk
Somerton is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It comprises the twin villages of East Somerton and West Somerton and is situated some north of the town of Great Yarmouth, north-east of the city of Norwich, and from the sea.Ordna ...
, England
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East Somerton
East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth.
Etymology
As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...
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West Somerton
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sunset, Sun sets on the Earth.
Etymology
The word "west" is a Germanic languages, German ...
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Somerton, Oxfordshire
Somerton is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England, in the Cherwell valley about northwest of Bicester. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 305.
Archaeology
Fourteen Saxon or early medieval graves have been discov ...
, England
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Somerton, Somerset
Somerton ( ) is a town and civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It gave its name to the county and was briefly, around the start of the 14th century, the county town, and around 900 was possibly the capital of Wessex. It has held a w ...
, England
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Hundred of Somerton
The Hundred of Somerton is one of the 40 historical Hundreds in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, dating from before the Norman conquest during the Anglo-Saxon era although exact dates are unknown. Each hundred had a 'fyrd', which act ...
, a former administrative unit
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Somerton, Suffolk
Somerton is a civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk in eastern England.
Somerton is split into two smaller villages: Upper Somerton with a population of approximately 50 and Somerton with a population of about 20. Upper Somerton is at ...
, England
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Somerton Castle
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Somerton Castle is located approximately west of the village of Boothby Graffoe in Lincolnshire, England and to the south of the city of Lincoln, England. The site is on low-lying land between the Lincoln Edge and the River Witham. ...
, Lincolnshire, England
United States
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Somerton, Arizona
Somerton is a city in Yuma County, Arizona, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 14,287. It is part of the Yuma Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Somerton was established in 1898 and incorporated in 1918. Somerton's economy is ...
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Somerton, Ohio
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Somerton, Philadelphia
Somerton is a neighborhood in the Far Northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The neighborhood is bounded by Red Lion Road on the south, Roosevelt Boulevard on the east, East County Line Road and Poquessing Creek on the no ...
, a neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Somerton, Virginia, a former town in the defunct Nansemond County
People
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Edward Somerton
Edward Somerton, or Somertoune (died 1461) was an Irish barrister and judge who held the offices of Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) and judge of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland) and the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland). He was born in Ireland, poss ...
(died 1461), an Irish barrister
* Baron Somerton, a subsidiary title of the
Earls of Normanton
See also
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Somerton railway station (disambiguation)
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Summertown (disambiguation) Summertown may refer to: Places
* Summertown, Georgia, U.S.
* Summertown, Oxford, England
* Summertown, South Australia
* Summertown, Tennessee
Summertown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lawrence County, Tenn ...
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