Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0Chedzoy has no famous person on record yet
Bridgwater, 2 mi off, can claim 38 famous people, the best known Robert Blake. No town in Somerset lists more than Bath, with 343. After Bath, the next longest list in Somerset is Taunton’s, with 146. 100 towns in Somerset have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Chedzoy’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Chedzoy yet.
Famous people born near Chedzoy
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Chedzoy, with how many people each has.
Bridgwater · 2 miRobert Blake & 37 moreJPBurnham-on-Sea · 7 miJohn Pople & 6 moreCBNorth Petherton · 4 miCecil Banes-Walker & 1 more
Highbridge · 6 miFrank Foley & 1 moreCDNorth Curry · 8 miCharles Holcombe Dare & 1 more
Woolavington · 2 miJohn JacobRTWalton · 8 miReginald ThynneDFCurry Rivel · 8 miDavid Howard Maude-Roxby-Montalto di FragnitoQuestions about famous people from Chedzoy
Who counts as from Chedzoy?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Chedzoy’s built-up area (the ONS 2022 boundary), a hospital or district within it included, whose English Wikipedia article agrees. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a bigger area (“London”), another town, or missing, or their article may give no birthplace. We only list people both sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are placed in the town by the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary (Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0). Ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across UK towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (3)
- Robert Blake: Henry Perronet Briggs, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Foley: UK government, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Jacob: Lobsterthermidor at en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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