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Bridgwater

market town in Somerset, England, UK
Place town Q914015

Facts

18 properties

Identity

Instance of
town, civil parish, market town[4][5]
Official website
bridgwater-tc.gov.uk[12]

Location

Country
United Kingdom[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.128°, -2.993°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Sedgemoor, Somerset[1]
Shares border with
Taunton[6]

Population and size

Population
+38310, +35886[13][14]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 38,310 · 35,886 GeoNames 41,276 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
01278[9]
More facts +10
Capital of
Sedgemoor[21]
Authority
Bridgwater Town Council[11]
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[16][17][18][19][20]
Different from
Bridgewater[22]
Head of government
Diogo Rodrigues[3]
Historic county
Somerset[23]
OS grid reference
ST305370[10]
Office held by head of government
Mayor of Bridgwater[15]
Said to be the same as
Bridgwater[8]
Twinned administrative body
Priverno[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Bridgwater en Bridgwater, Somerset ar بريدجووتر fa بریج‌واتر he ברידג'ווטר ja ブリッジウォーター ko 브리지워터 ru Bridgwater ru Бриджватер ru Бриджуотер uk Бріджвотер zh 布里奇沃特 zh-hans 桥水 zh-hant 橋水
🔖 Identifiers · 28
VIAF cluster ID
137919771
Library of Congress authority ID
n85180616
GND ID
5036486-8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Bridgwater cornexchange staute and church.jpg ↗
BBC News topic ID
c4y260l88rjt
BBC Things ID
1493824b-d55d-4f8e-8a33-c67ea061ca1b
Early Modern Letters Online location ID
6effdd63-92c2-436f-be49-10dc75f51acb
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Bridgwater
FactGrid item ID
Mexicali
Freebase ID
/m/0f_mz
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2590864
GSS code (2011)
E04008655
Show all 28 identifiers +16
GeoNames ID
2654730, 7294133
MusicBrainz area ID
c6d66b04-699d-41ba-b2bb-70b8d4b2ca33
NL CR AUT ID
ge342314
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007555443305171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2707123
SNARC ID
Erik Ode
TOID
7000000000042256, 4000000074574252
Topic's main category
Category:Bridgwater
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
8803
UN/LOCODE
GBBRW
Vision of Britain place ID
436
Vision of Britain unit ID
10421834
Who's on First ID
1360790711
Wikishire article ID
Bridgwater
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJhmK9fPqQqxJQjh8QhWDq
Yale LUX ID
place/606394b0-94b3-43a3-a170-547acb86bf5d
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/London 2026-09-26 P/PPL · GB GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Bronze
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🔗 Connections
People born here 10
Robert Blake, Alfred Bowerman, Elizabeth Ferris, James Sully, Robert Calderbank, Neil Parish, Paul Dukes, Francis Joseph Grimshaw +2 more
Contained subdivisions 3
Bridgwater railway station, Bridgwater Castle, Blake Museum
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Instance of 3
town, civil parish, market town
Located in this place 2
Battle of Sedgemoor, Blake Museum
People who died here 2
Frank Hadow, Humphrey Stafford, 1st Earl of Devon
← Shares border with 2
Taunton, Somerton
Capital of 1
Sedgemoor
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Bridgwater
Country 1
United Kingdom
Different from 1
Bridgewater
FactGrid item ID 1
Mexicali
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Sedgemoor
Residents 1
Lee Childs
SNARC ID 1
Erik Ode
Shares border with 1
Taunton
Topic's main category 1
Category:Bridgwater
Twinned administrative body 1
Priverno
← Capital 1
Sedgemoor
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Bridgwater
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Bridgwater
← FactGrid item ID 1
Dlouhá
← Headquarters location 1
Governing Council of the Cat Fancy
← Primary destinations 1
M5 motorway
← Twinned administrative body 1
Priverno
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Related Entities

Priverno Robert Blake Robert Calderbank United Kingdom

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · Rockysantos · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Head of government: Diogo Rodrigues"
  2. 4d ago · Rockysantos · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Head of government → Diogo Rodrigues
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Head of government: Diogo Rodrigues"
  3. 4d ago · Rockysantos · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Office held by head of government → Mayor of Bridgwater
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Office held by head of government: Mayor of Bridgwater"
  4. 11d ago · 11piemontesibellitosti · 2026-10-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://bridgwater-tc.gov.uk/
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Official website: http://www.pipm.net/"
  5. 11d ago · 11piemontesibellitosti · 2026-10-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Shares border with → Taunton
    Instance of → town, civil parish, market town
    Country → —
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 51.128, 'lon': -2.993}
    + 24 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Logo image: The seal of Bridgwater Town Council.jpg"
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