West Bagborough is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Taunton.

Round barrows, locally known as cairns, and constructed as earthen or rubble mounds, are prehistoric funerary monuments dating from the Bronze Age (c.2000-700 BC) .

This is allegedly due to the Black Death, which having struck the village during the fourteenth century, reduced the population to below one hundred.

In an attempt to rid themselves of this plague the villagers, so the story goes, abandoned the original settlement and re-built it further to the east, away from the church.

Earthworks to the south-west of the church, visible in aerial photographs, in the parklands of Bagborough House may lend credence to this claim.

The majority were struck in the reigns of emperors Constantius II and Julian and derive from a range of mints including Arles and Lyons in France, Trier in Germany and Rome.

[14] It is also part of the Tiverton and Minehead county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

[16] The church stands high above the main village, and allegedly owes this separation to the Black Death in the fourteenth century (see above).

[18] Bagborough House was built in 1739 by the Popham family, enlarged in 1820 and 1900, and is now lived in by Diana and Philip Brooke-Popham.