31 May
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Somerton - TA11
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Somerton
Somerton is a community and also civil parish in the English region of Somerset. It provided its name to the region and was quickly, around the start of the 14th century, the county town, and also around 900 was possibly the funding of Wessex. It has actually held an once a week market since the Middle Ages, and the main square with its market cross is today an eye-catching location for visitors. Situated on the River Cary, roughly 8.8 miles (14.2 kilometres) north-west of Yeovil, Somerton has its own community council serving a population of 4,697 as of 2011. Locals are usually referred to locally as Somertonians. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Etsome, Hurcot, Catsgore, and also Catcombe. The background of Somerton go back to the Anglo-Saxon age, when it was an important political as well as industrial centre. After the Norman conquest of England the value of the town declined, despite being the county town of Somerset in the late thirteenth century and very early fourteenth century. Having actually lost county town condition, Somerton then ended up being a market town in the Middle Ages, whose economic climate was supported by transportation systems making use of the River Parrett, and later on rail transport via the Great Western Railway, and by light markets including handwear cover production as well as plaster mining. In the centre of Somerton the vast market square, with its octagonal roofed market cross, is bordered by old houses, while close by is the 13th century Church of St Michael and All Angels. Somerton likewise had links with Muchelney Abbey in the Middle Ages. The BBC drama The Monocled Mutineer was shot in Somerton from 1985 to 1986.
