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Somerton
Somerton is a community and civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It offered its name to the county and was briefly, around the begin of the 14th century, the county town, and around 900 was possibly the resources of Wessex. It has held a regular market since the Middle Ages, as well as the primary square with its market cross is today an attractive area for visitors. Positioned on the River Cary, roughly 8.8 miles (14.2 km) north-west of Yeovil, Somerton has its very own town council serving a population of 4,697 since 2011. Citizens are usually referred to locally as Somertonians. The civil parish includes the districts of Etsome, Hurcot, Catsgore, and also Catcombe. The history of Somerton go back to the Anglo-Saxon age, when it was a vital political and also business centre. After the Norman conquest of England the importance of the community declined, in spite of being the county town of Somerset in the late thirteenth century as well as very early fourteenth century. Having shed county town standing, Somerton then became a market community in the Middle Ages, whose economic situation was sustained by transportation systems using the River Parrett, and later on rail transport by means of the Great Western Railway, as well as by light sectors consisting of handwear cover making and also gypsum mining. In the centre of Somerton the wide market square, with its octagonal roofed market cross, is bordered by old houses, while nearby is the 13th century Church of St Michael and All Angels. Somerton also had links with Muchelney Abbey between Ages. The BBC drama The Monocled Mutineer was shot in Somerton from 1985 to 1986.