07 Sep
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Ilminster - TA19
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Ilminster
Ilminster is a town as well as civil parish in the countryside of south west Somerset, England, with a population of 5,808. Bypassed in 1988, the community now lies just eastern of the junction of the A303 (London to Exeter) and the A358 (Taunton to Chard and also Axminster). The parish includes the district of Sea. Ilminster is pointed out in records dating from 725 and also in a Charter provided to the Abbey of Muchelney (10 miles (16 kilometres) to the north) by King Ethelred in 995. Ilminster is additionally stated 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 and was approved the right to hold an once a week market, which it still does. Ilminster belonged to the hundred of Abdick and Bulstone. In 1645 during the English Civil War Ilminster was the scene of an altercation in between legislative troops under Edward Massie and Royalist forces under Lord Goring that fought for control of the bridges before the Battle of Langport. The community contains the structures of a sixteenth-century grammar school, the Ilminster Meeting House, which works as the town's art gallery as well as concert hall. There is likewise a Gospel Hall.
