Crewkerne
Crewkerne is a community as well as electoral ward in Somerset, England, situated 9 miles (14 kilometres) south west of Yeovil and 7 miles (11 km) east of Chard in the South Somerset area close to the boundary with Dorset. The civil parish of West Crewkerne consists of the communities of Woolminstone as well as Henley. The community lies on the River Parrett, A30 road and West of England Main Line railway. The earliest written document of Crewkerne remains in the 899 will certainly of Alfred the Great who left it to his youngest child Æthelweard. After the Norman conquest it was held by William the Conqueror as well as in the Domesday Survey of 1086 was called an imperial manor. Crewkerne Castle was perhaps a Norman motte castle. The community matured in the late mediaeval period around the textile market, its wealth maintained in the fifteenth century Church of St Bartholomew. During the 18th as well as 19th centuries the main market was cloth production, consisting of webbing, and sails for the Royal Navy. Local eco-friendly sites consist of the Bincombe Beeches Local Nature Reserve and the Millwater organic Site of Special Scientific Interest. Crewkerne railway station is served by South Western Railway on the primary south western railway line. There are neighborhood supermarkets as well as regional shops, and also some neighborhood industry. The town is the native home of a number of remarkable individuals and also has actually varied social as well as showing off centers consisting of those at Wadham Community School.
