Ilminster
Ilminster is a community and also civil parish in the countryside of south west Somerset, England, with a population of 5,808. Bypassed in 1988, the town currently exists just eastern of the joint of the A303 (London to Exeter) as well as the A358 (Taunton to Chard as well as Axminster). The church includes the district of Sea. Ilminster is pointed out in records dating from 725 and in a Charter provided to the Abbey of Muchelney (10 miles (16 kilometres) to the north) by King Ethelred in 995. Ilminster is also pointed out in the Domesday Book (1086) as Ileminstre implying 'The church on the River Isle' from the Old English ysle as well as mynster. By this period Ilminster was a growing area as well as was granted the right to hold a weekly market, which it still does. Ilminster belonged to the numerous Abdick and also Bulstone. In 1645 throughout the English Civil War Ilminster was the scene of an altercation in between legislative troops under Edward Massie as well as Royalist forces under Lord Goring who defended control of the bridges before the Battle of Langport. The community includes the structures of a sixteenth-century grammar school, the Ilminster Meeting House, which acts as the community's art gallery and also concert hall. There is likewise a Gospel Hall.
