Somerton
Somerton is a town and also civil parish in the English region of Somerset. It provided its name to the area and was quickly, around the start of the 14th century, the county town, as well as around 900 was possibly the funding of Wessex. It has held a weekly market given that the Middle Ages, as well as the primary square with its market cross is today an attractive area for site visitors. Located on the River Cary, roughly 8.8 miles (14.2 km) north-west of Yeovil, Somerton has its very own community council serving a population of 4,697 since 2011. Citizens are often described locally as Somertonians. The civil parish includes the communities of Etsome, Hurcot, Catsgore, and Catcombe. The background of Somerton dates back to the Anglo-Saxon era, when it was an important political and industrial centre. After the Norman occupation of England the relevance of the town decreased, despite being the county town of Somerset in the late thirteenth century as well as very early fourteenth century. Having shed county town condition, Somerton after that became a market town in the Middle Ages, whose economy was sustained by transportation systems making use of the River Parrett, and later on rail transport through the Great Western Railway, and by light markets consisting of glove production as well as plaster mining. In the centre of Somerton the large market square, with its octagonal roofed market cross, is surrounded by old homes, while close by is the 13th century Church of St Michael and All Angels. Somerton also had relate to Muchelney Abbey between Ages. The BBC drama The Monocled Mutineer was filmed in Somerton from 1985 to 1986.
