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Porlock

village and civil parish in Somerset, England
Place civil_parish Q1225604
Porlock
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Facts

10 properties
Instance of
civil parish, village[4]
Country
United Kingdom[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.209°, -3.596°
Historic county
Somerset[12]
Local dialing code
01643[6]
Located in protected area
Exmoor National Park[11]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Somerset West and Taunton, Somerset, West Somerset, Williton Rural District[2]
OS grid reference
SS886467[7]
Population
1.4k (1.4k–1.5k, n=3)[8][9][10]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1,355 · 1,513 · 1,440 GeoNames 1,213 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Postal code
TA24[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Porlock en Porlock (civil parish), Somerset en Porlock, Somerset fr A person from Porlock fr Person from Porlock ja ポーロック zh 波洛克
🔖 Identifiers · 24
VIAF cluster ID
158523592
Library of Congress authority ID
nb2004309781
Alvin ID
alvin-place:4196
BBC Things ID
e41ed2a2-6602-4b36-a961-14830fe23a5e
BabelNet ID
03808196n
FactGrid item ID
(450894) 2008 BT18
Freebase ID
/m/03phb7
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2605554
GSS code (2011)
E04008852
GeoNames ID
2640088, 7291689
KEPN ID
Somerset/Porlock
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007482552105171
Show all 24 identifiers +12
OpenDomesday settlement ID
SS8846/porlock
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2676434
Quora topic ID
Porlock
RKD thesaurus ID
37234
SNARC ID
Alexander Stolz
TOID
7000000000010732, 4000000074575215
Vision of Britain place ID
13150
Vision of Britain unit ID
10439437
WOEID
32345
Wellcome Collection concept ID
dgvrgc99
Who's on First ID
1125771445
Yale LUX ID
place/97326398-e23e-48ea-82d3-758ce038b4a6

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Located in time zoneP421
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
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🔗 Connections
Located in the administrative territorial entity 3
West Somerset, Somerset West and Taunton, Somerset
Instance of 2
village, civil parish
Country 1
United Kingdom
FactGrid item ID 1
(450894) 2008 BT18
Located in protected area 1
Exmoor National Park
People born here 1
Drummond Matthews
SNARC ID 1
Alexander Stolz
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Summary

Porlock is a civil parish[1].

Related Entities

United Kingdom

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 26w ago · Steinsky · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in → —
    Instance of → —
    Country → —
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 51.208797222222, 'lon': -3.5955555555556}
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Located in the administrative territorial entity: Williton Rural District, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1777743330157"
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