Crewkerne
Crewkerne is a town as well as electoral ward in Somerset, England, located 9 miles (14 km) southern west of Yeovil and 7 miles (11 kilometres) east of Chard in the South Somerset area close to the border with Dorset. The civil parish of West Crewkerne consists of the districts of Woolminstone and Henley. The town lies on the River Parrett, A30 roadway and West of England Main Line railway. The earliest created record of Crewkerne remains in the 899 will certainly of Alfred the Great who left it to his youngest son Æthelweard. After the Norman conquest it was held by William the Conqueror and in the Domesday Survey of 1086 was described as a royal estate. Crewkerne Castle was perhaps a Norman motte castle. The community grew up in the late mediaeval duration around the fabric industry, its riches protected in the fifteenth century Church of St Bartholomew. During the 18th and 19th centuries the main market was fabric making, consisting of webbing, and sails for the Royal Navy. Local ecological sites include the Bincombe Beeches Local Nature Reserve and the Millwater biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. Crewkerne railway station is served by South Western Railway on the major south western railway line. There are regional supermarkets and also local shops, as well as some regional sector. The town is the birth place of a number of remarkable people and also has differed social as well as showing off centers including those at Wadham Community School.
