Church of St Michael · Photo: Stevekeiretsu · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from Shepton Beauchamp is on the famous people list yet
Go 3 mi to Ilminster and the list grows to 7, with Paul Adcock at the top. The longest list in Somerset is Bath’s, with 343 names. After Bath, the next longest list in Somerset is Taunton’s, with 146. Across Somerset, 100 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Shepton Beauchamp’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Shepton Beauchamp yet.
Famous people born near Shepton Beauchamp
The neighbour with the most names is Ilminster, at 7.
Langport · 6 miWalter Bagehot & 6 more
Chard · 7 miMargaret Bondfield & 6 more
Crewkerne · 5 miMark Pritchard & 5 more
South Petherton · 2 miJohn Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton & 1 more
Martock · 4 miThomas Southwood Smith & 1 more
Misterton · 6 miEllen Buckingham Mathews & 1 moreCDNorth Curry · 7 miCharles Holcombe Dare & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Shepton Beauchamp
Who counts as from Shepton Beauchamp?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Shepton Beauchamp’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 (6)
- Walter Bagehot: Norman Hirst (1862–1956), after Unknown artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Margaret Bondfield: Harris & Ewing, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Pritchard: Claire Rowland, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton: . The original uploader was RossLoudon at English Wikipedia., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Southwood Smith: James Charles Armytage / After Margaret Gillies, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ellen Buckingham Mathews: Stanislaw Walery (1863 - 1935), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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