Somerton
Somerton is a community as well as civil parish in the English area of Somerset. It provided its name to the county as well as was briefly, around the start of the 14th century, the county town, and also around 900 was possibly the funding of Wessex. It has actually held a weekly market considering that the Middle Ages, and also the main square with its market cross is today an appealing location for visitors. Positioned on the River Cary, roughly 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. Residents are commonly referred to locally as Somertonians. The civil parish consists of the communities of Etsome, Hurcot, Catsgore, as well as Catcombe. The background of Somerton dates back to the Anglo-Saxon period, when it was an important political and commercial centre. After the Norman conquest of England the significance of the town declined, regardless of being the county town of Somerset in the late thirteenth century as well as very early fourteenth century. Having actually shed county town status, Somerton after that came to be a market community in the Middle Ages, whose economic climate was supported by transportation systems making use of the River Parrett, and later rail transport using the Great Western Railway, and also by light sectors consisting of glove production and gypsum mining. In the centre of Somerton the wide 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 likewise had links with Muchelney Abbey between Ages. The BBC drama The Monocled Mutineer was shot in Somerton from 1985 to 1986.
