Somerton
Somerton is a community as well as civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It offered its name to the county and was briefly, around the start of the 14th century, the county town, and also around 900 was perhaps the resources of Wessex. It has actually held an once a week market given that the Middle Ages, as well as the main square with its market cross is today an attractive place for visitors. Situated on the River Cary, approximately 8.8 miles (14.2 kilometres) north-west of Yeovil, Somerton has its very own town council offering a population of 4,697 since 2011. Homeowners are typically described locally as Somertonians. The civil parish consists of the communities of Etsome, Hurcot, Catsgore, as well as Catcombe. The history of Somerton dates back to the Anglo-Saxon period, when it was an important political and also commercial centre. After the Norman conquest of England the value of the community decreased, in spite of being the county town of Somerset in the late thirteenth century and also very early fourteenth century. Having actually lost county town condition, Somerton after that became a market community in the Middle Ages, whose economic climate was supported by transportation systems making use of the River Parrett, and later rail transportation by means of the Great Western Railway, and by light sectors including handwear cover production and also gypsum mining. In the centre of Somerton the large market square, with its octagonal roofed market cross, is surrounded by old houses, while close by is the 13th century Church of St Michael and All Angels. Somerton additionally had links with Muchelney Abbey in the Middle Ages. The BBC drama The Monocled Mutineer was recorded in Somerton from 1985 to 1986.
