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Norton Radstock

Norton Radstock

Norton Radstock was formerly a civil parish in Somerset, England. It covered the closely adjoining towns of Midsomer Norton and Radstock, along with the smaller settlements of Clandown, Haydon, Westfield, and Writhlington. It was created as a civil parish and urban district in 1933 from a merger of the two urban districts of Midsomer Norton and Radstock. It ceased to be an urban district in 1974, when district-level functions passed to Wansdyke District Council, which was in turn replaced by Bath and North East Somerset Council in 1996. The parish of Norton Radstock was abolished in 2011, when the area was split into three civil parishes called Midsomer Norton, Radstock and Westfield.

The conurbation is 8 miles (13 km) south-west of Bath, and the same distance north-west of Frome. It had a population of 21,325 at the 2001 census.