Crewkerne
Crewkerne is a community and electoral ward in Somerset, England, located 9 miles (14 kilometres) south west of Yeovil as well as 7 miles (11 kilometres) eastern of Chard in the South Somerset district close to the boundary with Dorset. The civil parish of West Crewkerne consists of the hamlets of Woolminstone and also Henley. The community pushes the River Parrett, A30 roadway and West of England Main Line railway. The earliest written record of Crewkerne is in the 899 will of Alfred the Great who left it to his youngest kid Æthelweard. After the Norman occupation it was held by William the Conqueror as well as in the Domesday Survey of 1086 was referred to as a royal estate. Crewkerne Castle was potentially a Norman motte castle. The community grew up in the late mediaeval duration around the fabric industry, its wide range preserved in the fifteenth century Church of St Bartholomew. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries the main sector was towel making, consisting of webbing, and also sails for the Royal Navy. Neighborhood ecological sites consist of the Bincombe Beeches Local Nature Reserve and also the Millwater biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. Crewkerne railway station is served by South Western Railway on the main south western railway line. There are neighborhood supermarkets as well as regional shops, and some regional sector. The town is the birthplace of numerous significant people and also has differed social and also sporting facilities including those at Wadham Community School.
