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 currently exists just east of the junction of the A303 (London to Exeter) and also the A358 (Taunton to Chard as well as Axminster). The parish consists of the district of Sea. Ilminster is pointed out in documents dating from 725 as well as in a Charter given to the Abbey of Muchelney (10 miles (16 km) to the north) by King Ethelred in 995. Ilminster is likewise stated in the Domesday Book (1086) as Ileminstre suggesting 'The church on the River Isle' from the Old English ysle and mynster. By this duration Ilminster was a growing area and was provided the right to hold an once a week market, which it still does. Ilminster became part of the numerous Abdick and also Bulstone. In 1645 throughout the English Civil War Ilminster was the scene of a skirmish between legislative troops under Edward Massie and also Royalist pressures under Lord Goring that defended control of the bridges before the Battle of Langport. The community consists of the structures of a sixteenth-century grammar school, the Ilminster Meeting House, which functions as the community's art gallery as well as music hall. There is also a Gospel Hall.
