Somerton
Somerton is a town as well as civil parish in the English area of Somerset. It offered its name to the region and was quickly, around the beginning of the 14th century, the county town, and around 900 was potentially the resources of Wessex. It has actually held a regular market given that the Middle Ages, as well as the main square with its market cross is today an attractive place for visitors. Positioned on the River Cary, around 8.8 miles (14.2 kilometres) north-west of Yeovil, Somerton has its own town council offering a population of 4,697 as of 2011. Citizens are commonly referred to locally as Somertonians. The civil parish includes the districts of Etsome, Hurcot, Catsgore, and Catcombe. The background of Somerton go back to the Anglo-Saxon period, when it was an important political and commercial centre. After the Norman conquest of England the importance of the town declined, in spite of being the county town of Somerset in the late thirteenth century and very early fourteenth century. Having lost county town condition, Somerton after that ended up being a market town in the Middle Ages, whose economic situation was sustained by transportation systems using the River Parrett, as well as later on rail transportation using the Great Western Railway, and by light sectors including glove production and gypsum mining. In the centre of Somerton the vast market square, with its octagonal roofed market cross, is bordered by old houses, while nearby is the 13th century Church of St Michael and All Angels. Somerton additionally had links with Muchelney Abbey between Ages. The BBC drama The Monocled Mutineer was filmed in Somerton from 1985 to 1986.
