Somerton may refer to:
Places
Australia
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Somerton, New South Wales
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Somerton Park, South Australia, a seaside Adelaide suburb
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Somerton Man, unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead in 1948 on the Somerton Park beach
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Somerton, Victoria
United Kingdom
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Somerton, Newport, Wales
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Somerton, Norfolk, 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 fa ...
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West Somerton
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Somerton, Oxfordshire, 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, a former administrative unit
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Somerton, Suffolk, England
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Somerton Castle, Lincolnshire, England
United States
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Somerton, Arizona
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Somerton, Ohio Somerton is an unincorporated community in Belmont County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.
History
Somerton was laid out around 1818. The community's name is derived from Somerset
Somerset ( , ; Archaism, archaically Somersetshire , , ) is a Cerem ...
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Somerton, Philadelphia, a neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Somerton, Virginia
Somerton Historic District is a national historic district located at Suffolk, Virginia. Prior to annexation in 1974 Somerton was part of now non-existing Nansemond County. The district encompasses 15 contributing buildings and 2 contributing s ...
, 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, possib ...
(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)
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