Crewkerne
Crewkerne is a town and also electoral ward in Somerset, England, positioned 9 miles (14 km) southern west of Yeovil as well as 7 miles (11 kilometres) eastern of Chard in the South Somerset area close to the border with Dorset. The civil parish of West Crewkerne consists of the communities of Woolminstone and Henley. The community rests on the River Parrett, A30 roadway and West of England Main Line railway. The earliest written record of Crewkerne is in the 899 will certainly of Alfred the Great who left it to his youngest boy Æthelweard. After the Norman occupation it was held by William the Conqueror and in the Domesday Survey of 1086 was called a royal manor. Crewkerne Castle was perhaps a Norman motte castle. The community matured in the late mediaeval period around the textile market, its wealth preserved in the fifteenth century Church of St Bartholomew. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries the major sector was cloth making, consisting of webbing, and sails for the Royal Navy. Regional eco-friendly sites consist of the Bincombe Beeches Local Nature Reserve as well as the Millwater organic Site of Special Scientific Interest. Crewkerne railway station is offered by South Western Railway on the main south western railway line. There are neighborhood grocery stores as well as regional shops, as well as some regional market. The community is the birth place of several remarkable individuals as well as has varied social and also showing off facilities including those at Wadham Community School.
