Crewkerne
Crewkerne is a town as well as electoral ward in Somerset, England, situated 9 miles (14 kilometres) southern west of Yeovil as well as 7 miles (11 kilometres) east of Chard in the South Somerset district near the border with Dorset. The civil parish of West Crewkerne consists of the districts of Woolminstone and also Henley. The community rests on the River Parrett, A30 road and also West of England Main Line railway. The earliest written record of Crewkerne remains in the 899 will certainly of Alfred the Great that left it to his youngest child Æthelweard. After the Norman conquest it was held by William the Conqueror and also in the Domesday Survey of 1086 was referred to as a royal mansion. Crewkerne Castle was potentially a Norman motte castle. The community grew up in the late mediaeval period around the fabric industry, its wealth maintained in the fifteenth century Church of St Bartholomew. During the 18th and 19th centuries the primary sector was cloth production, including webbing, as well as sails for the Royal Navy. Neighborhood ecological sites include the Bincombe Beeches Local Nature Reserve as well as the Millwater biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. Crewkerne train station is served by South Western Railway on the major south western railway line. There are local grocery stores and neighborhood stores, as well as some local industry. The town is the native home of several noteworthy people and has varied cultural and showing off facilities consisting of those at Wadham Community School.