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 km) east of Chard in the South Somerset area close to the border with Dorset. The civil parish of West Crewkerne consists of the communities of Woolminstone as well as Henley. The community pushes the River Parrett, A30 roadway as well as West of England Main Line railway. The earliest composed document of Crewkerne is in the 899 will of Alfred the Great that left it to his youngest boy Æthelweard. After the Norman conquest it was held by William the Conqueror and in the Domesday Survey of 1086 was described as a royal mansion. Crewkerne Castle was potentially a Norman motte castle. The community matured in the late mediaeval period around the textile industry, its wide range protected in the fifteenth century Church of St Bartholomew. During the 18th and also 19th centuries the main market was towel making, including webbing, and sails for the Royal Navy. Neighborhood ecological sites include the Bincombe Beeches Local Nature Reserve as well as the Millwater biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. Crewkerne train station is served by South Western Railway on the main south western railway line. There are local grocery stores and neighborhood shops, and also some neighborhood market. The community is the birth place of several remarkable people and has varied social as well as showing off facilities including those at Wadham Community School.