Crewkerne
Crewkerne is a community as well as selecting ward in Somerset, England, positioned 9 miles (14 km) southern west of Yeovil and 7 miles (11 kilometres) eastern of Chard in the South Somerset district close to the boundary with Dorset. The civil parish of West Crewkerne consists of the communities of Woolminstone as well as Henley. The community pushes the River Parrett, A30 road as well as West of England Main Line railway. The earliest written record of Crewkerne remains in the 899 will certainly of Alfred the Great who left it to his youngest son Æthelweard. After the Norman occupation it was held by William the Conqueror as well as in the Domesday Survey of 1086 was referred to as an imperial chateau. Crewkerne Castle was possibly a Norman motte castle. The community matured in the late mediaeval duration around the textile sector, its wealth preserved in the fifteenth century Church of St Bartholomew. Throughout the 18th and also 19th centuries the primary industry was cloth making, consisting of webbing, and sails for the Royal Navy. Local eco-friendly sites include the Bincombe Beeches Local Nature Reserve as well as the Millwater organic Site of Special Scientific Interest. Crewkerne train station is served by South Western Railway on the main south western railway line. There are local supermarkets as well as local shops, as well as some neighborhood industry. The community is the birth place of a number of notable people and has actually differed cultural and also showing off facilities consisting of those at Wadham Community School.
