Crewkerne
Crewkerne is a town and also electoral ward in Somerset, England, positioned 9 miles (14 km) south west of Yeovil and also 7 miles (11 km) eastern of Chard in the South Somerset district near to the border with Dorset. The civil parish of West Crewkerne includes the hamlets of Woolminstone as well as Henley. The town pushes the River Parrett, A30 road and also West of England Main Line railway. The earliest written record of Crewkerne remains in the 899 will of Alfred the Great who left it to his youngest child Æthelweard. After the Norman occupation it was held by William the Conqueror as well as in the Domesday Survey of 1086 was described as a royal mansion. Crewkerne Castle was perhaps a Norman motte castle. The town matured in the late mediaeval period around the fabric industry, its riches preserved in the fifteenth century Church of St Bartholomew. Throughout the 18th as well as 19th centuries the major sector was cloth production, consisting of webbing, and sails for the Royal Navy. Regional eco-friendly sites include the Bincombe Beeches Local Nature Reserve and the Millwater biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. Crewkerne railway station is served by South Western Railway on the primary south western railway line. There are local grocery stores and local shops, and some local market. The community is the birth place of a number of remarkable individuals and also has actually differed social and showing off facilities consisting of those at Wadham Community School.
