Somerton
Somerton is a town and also civil parish in the English area of Somerset. It gave its name to the area as well as was briefly, around the start of the 14th century, the county town, and also around 900 was perhaps the funding of Wessex. It has held an once a week market considering that the Middle Ages, and the primary square with its market cross is today an eye-catching place for visitors. Situated on the River Cary, around 8.8 miles (14.2 kilometres) north-west of Yeovil, Somerton has its own community council serving a population of 4,697 since 2011. Locals are usually described locally as Somertonians. The civil parish consists of the districts of Etsome, Hurcot, Catsgore, and Catcombe. The history of Somerton dates back to the Anglo-Saxon period, when it was an important political and industrial centre. After the Norman conquest of England the significance of the town declined, in spite of being the county town of Somerset in the late thirteenth century and also very early fourteenth century. Having lost county town standing, Somerton then came to be a market community in the Middle Ages, whose economy was sustained by transport systems making use of the River Parrett, and also later on rail transport via 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 surrounded by old homes, while close by is the 13th century Church of St Michael and All Angels. Somerton also had relate to Muchelney Abbey between Ages. The BBC drama The Monocled Mutineer was shot in Somerton from 1985 to 1986.
