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Watchet

town in Somerset, England
Place Town Q641921

Facts

12 properties

Identity

Instance of
town, civil parish[3]
Official website
www.watchettowncouncil.org[9]

Location

Country
United Kingdom[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.179°, -3.324°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Somerset West and Taunton (2019–2023), Somerset (2023–present)[1]

Population and size

Population
3.8k (3.8k–3.9k, n=3)[10][11][12]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 3,948 · 3,949 · 3,785 GeoNames 3,581 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
01984[6]
Postal code
TA23[4]
More facts +4
Authority
Watchet Town Council[8]
Historic county
Somerset[13]
OS grid reference
ST074431[7]
Said to be the same as
Watchet[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Watchet en Watchet, Somerset fa واتچت ja ウォチェット ja ウォッチェット zh 沃切特
🔖 Identifiers · 22
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Watchet.jpg ↗
Alvin ID
alvin-place:4567
BBC News topic ID
c8zwn8k9lgxt
BBC Things ID
f656afe4-e79c-425f-8060-02f1fe49368b
Curlie ID
Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Somerset/Watchet/
FactGrid item ID
Karl Bernhard Wessely
Freebase ID
/m/024qfd
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2,610,965
GSS code (2011)
E04008862
GeoNames ID
2634704, 7291693
MusicBrainz area ID
437b20ba-a5bd-4485-9c68-3279df1b967d
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
geo/9ee91dd1-175f-4a6c-b3fc-7fa381e01cb5
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OpenDomesday settlement ID
ST0743/watchet
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2699595
TOID
7000000000010709, 4000000074576970
Topic's main category
Category:Watchet
UN/LOCODE
GBWAT
Vision of Britain place ID
702
Vision of Britain unit ID
10445309 (1902–present)
WOEID
39256
Who's on First ID
101852497
Yale LUX ID
place/bdad6317-d505-4fa4-96df-96be320bd950
📚 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
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
town, civil parish
Country 1
United Kingdom
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Somerset West and Taunton
People who died here 1
Osborne Reynolds
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Direct Wikidata claims

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  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Dev Jadiya · 2026-11-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → Watchet
    Population → 3,948, 3,949, 3,785
    Country → United Kingdom
    Instance of → town, civil parish
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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