Crewkerne
Crewkerne is a town and also electoral ward in Somerset, England, situated 9 miles (14 kilometres) southern west of Yeovil and also 7 miles (11 km) east of Chard in the South Somerset district near the boundary with Dorset. The civil parish of West Crewkerne includes the districts of Woolminstone and Henley. The community lies on the River Parrett, A30 roadway and also West of England Main Line railway. The earliest composed document of Crewkerne remains in the 899 will of Alfred the Great that 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 called an imperial chateau. Crewkerne Castle was possibly a Norman motte castle. The community grew up in the late mediaeval duration around the textile market, its riches protected in the fifteenth century Church of St Bartholomew. Throughout the 18th and also 19th centuries the main sector was cloth making, consisting of webbing, and also sails for the Royal Navy. Neighborhood environmental sites include the Bincombe Beeches Local Nature Reserve as well as the Millwater organic Site of Special Scientific Interest. Crewkerne train station is served by South Western Railway on the main south western railway line. There are neighborhood grocery stores and local shops, as well as some neighborhood sector. The town is the birth place of numerous notable people as well as has differed cultural and sporting centers consisting of those at Wadham Community School.
