Ilminster
Ilminster is a community and civil parish in the countryside of south west Somerset, England, with a population of 5,808. Bypassed in 1988, the community now lies simply eastern of the joint of the A303 (London to Exeter) as well as the A358 (Taunton to Chard and also Axminster). The parish includes the community of Sea. Ilminster is discussed in files dating from 725 as well as in a Charter approved to the Abbey of Muchelney (10 miles (16 kilometres) to the north) by King Ethelred in 995. Ilminster is also discussed in the Domesday Book (1086) as Ileminstre indicating 'The church on the River Isle' from the Old English ysle and also mynster. By this period Ilminster was a growing neighborhood as well as was approved the right to hold an once a week market, which it still does. Ilminster belonged to the hundred of Abdick as well as Bulstone. In 1645 throughout the English Civil War Ilminster was the scene of a skirmish in between parliamentary troops under Edward Massie and also Royalist pressures under Lord Goring that defended control of the bridges prior to the Battle of Langport. The town contains the structures of a sixteenth-century grammar school, the Ilminster Meeting House, which works as the community's art gallery as well as auditorium. There is likewise a Gospel Hall.
