Somerton
Somerton is a community and also civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It gave its name to the county and was quickly, around the beginning of the 14th century, the county town, and around 900 was possibly the funding of Wessex. It has held a regular market because the Middle Ages, and also the primary square with its market cross is today an appealing place for visitors. Positioned on the River Cary, around 8.8 miles (14.2 kilometres) north-west of Yeovil, Somerton has its own town council offering a population of 4,697 as of 2011. Residents are commonly described in your area as Somertonians. The civil parish consists of the communities of Etsome, Hurcot, Catsgore, as well as Catcombe. The background of Somerton go back to the Anglo-Saxon age, when it was an important political as well as business centre. After the Norman occupation of England the significance of the town decreased, despite being the county town of Somerset in the late thirteenth century and also early fourteenth century. Having lost county town standing, Somerton after that came to be a market community in the Middle Ages, whose economy was supported by transportation systems making use of the River Parrett, as well as later on rail transportation using the Great Western Railway, and by light markets including glove making and also plaster mining. In the centre of Somerton the vast market square, with its octagonal roofed market cross, is surrounded by old homes, while close by is the 13th century Church of St Michael and All Angels. Somerton additionally had relate to Muchelney Abbey in the Middle Ages. The BBC drama The Monocled Mutineer was filmed in Somerton from 1985 to 1986.
