Milverton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated in the valley of the River Tone 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Taunton.

[3] Neolithic flint arrowheads have been found to the west of the village and Bronze Age axe heads were discovered when the bypass, which opened in 1975, was being built.

[3] Just before the Norman Conquest, Milverton was granted by Queen Edith of Wessex to Gisa, Bishop of Wells, but this was reversed by William the Conqueror.

[6][7] While the house was being renovated in the early 21st century a Tudor wall painting of Henry VIII was discovered underneath the plaster and is the only one of its kind in a domestic dwelling.

[2] Trade was largely based on cloth manufacture and in 1819 Lamech Swift established a silk throwing factory which employed up to 300 women and children.

[13] Milverton was the birthplace of Thomas Young (1773–1829), an English polymath who contributed to the scientific understanding of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, and Egyptology, in particular the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphics of the Rosetta Stone.