Somerton
Somerton is a town as well as civil parish in the English area of Somerset. It offered its name to the area as well as was briefly, around the begin of the 14th century, the county town, as well as around 900 was potentially the funding of Wessex. It has held an once a week market given that the Middle Ages, as well as the primary square with its market cross is today an eye-catching place for visitors. Positioned on the River Cary, about 8.8 miles (14.2 km) north-west of Yeovil, Somerton has its own community council offering a population of 4,697 as of 2011. Residents are frequently described in your area as Somertonians. The civil parish includes the districts of Etsome, Hurcot, Catsgore, and also Catcombe. The background of Somerton go back to the Anglo-Saxon period, when it was an important political and also business centre. After the Norman conquest of England the importance of the town decreased, despite being the county town of Somerset in the late thirteenth century and also very early fourteenth century. Having shed county town standing, Somerton then became a market community in the Middle Ages, whose economic situation was sustained by transportation systems using the River Parrett, as well as later on rail transportation using the Great Western Railway, and also by light industries including glove making and gypsum mining. In the centre of Somerton the wide market square, with its octagonal roofed market cross, is bordered by old houses, while close by is the 13th century Church of St Michael and All Angels. Somerton additionally had relate to Muchelney Abbey between Ages. The BBC drama The Monocled Mutineer was filmed in Somerton from 1985 to 1986.