West Monkton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 2 miles (3.2 km) north east of Taunton.

The parish includes the hamlets of Monkton Heathfield, Bathpool, and Burlinch and the western parts of Coombe and Walford,[1] and had a population of 2,787 at the 2011 census.

In March 1812, the structure was burnt down by a fire, caused, according to the Taunton Courier, by "the excessive friction excited in the stones used in the process of shelling clover seeds".

Redler rebuilt it with safety in mind, and installed a steam-driven turbine as water levels were often inadequate to power the wheels.

Although West Monkton parish covers certain additional hamlets the ward extends to Cheddon Fitzpaine.

[10] It is also part of the Taunton and Wellington county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

[11] Its restoration to Gertrude Jekyll's original plans (1904–07) have made it "one of the best Jekyll-Lutyens gardens open to the public on a regular basis",[12] visited by approximately 70,000 people per year.

The estate is Grade I listed on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.

[14] The house was used as the headquarters of the British 8th Corps in the Second World War, and has been owned by Somerset County Council since 1951.