Ilminster
Ilminster is a community as well as civil parish in the countryside of south west Somerset, England, with a population of 5,808. Bypassed in 1988, the community now lies just east of the junction of the A303 (London to Exeter) and also the A358 (Taunton to Chard and Axminster). The parish consists of the hamlet of Sea. Ilminster is stated in records 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 additionally stated in the Domesday Book (1086) as Ileminstre indicating 'The church on the River Isle' from the Old English ysle and also mynster. By this duration Ilminster was a flourishing community as well as was granted the right to hold a weekly market, which it still does. Ilminster belonged to the numerous Abdick and Bulstone. In 1645 during the English Civil War Ilminster was the scene of an altercation in between legislative troops under Edward Massie as well as Royalist forces under Lord Goring that fought for control of the bridges before the Battle of Langport. The community consists of the structures of a sixteenth-century grade school, the Ilminster Meeting House, which acts as the community's art gallery and also opera house. There is also a Gospel Hall.
