Ilminster
Ilminster is a community as well as civil parish in the countryside of south west Somerset, England, with a population of 5,808. Bypassed in 1988, the community currently exists simply eastern of the joint of the A303 (London to Exeter) and also the A358 (Taunton to Chard and Axminster). The church consists of the district of Sea. Ilminster is pointed out in files dating from 725 and in a Charter approved to the Abbey of Muchelney (10 miles (16 km) to the north) by King Ethelred in 995. Ilminster is also discussed in the Domesday Book (1086) as Ileminstre suggesting 'The church on the River Isle' from the Old English ysle and also mynster. By this duration Ilminster was a prospering community as well as was provided the right to hold a weekly market, which it still does. Ilminster belonged to the thousand of Abdick as well as Bulstone. In 1645 during the English Civil War Ilminster was the scene of a skirmish between parliamentary soldiers under Edward Massie as well as Royalist forces under Lord Goring that defended control of the bridges prior to the Battle of Langport. The town consists of the buildings of a sixteenth-century grade school, the Ilminster Meeting House, which serves as the community's art gallery and also opera house. There is also a Gospel Hall.
