Ilminster
Ilminster is a community as well as civil parish in the countryside of south west Somerset, England, with a population of 5,808. Bypassed in 1988, the town now exists just eastern of the junction of the A303 (London to Exeter) and also the A358 (Taunton to Chard and also Axminster). The parish includes the community of Sea. Ilminster is discussed in records dating from 725 and in a Charter given to the Abbey of Muchelney (10 miles (16 kilometres) to the north) by King Ethelred in 995. Ilminster is additionally discussed in the Domesday Book (1086) as Ileminstre meaning 'The church on the River Isle' from the Old English ysle and also mynster. By this duration Ilminster was a prospering community as well as was approved the right to hold a regular market, which it still does. Ilminster belonged to the hundred of Abdick and Bulstone. In 1645 throughout the English Civil War Ilminster was the scene of an altercation between parliamentary troops under Edward Massie and Royalist forces under Lord Goring who fought for control of the bridges before the Battle of Langport. The community has the structures of a sixteenth-century grammar school, the Ilminster Meeting House, which acts as the community's art gallery and also auditorium. There is additionally a Gospel Hall.
