Crewkerne
Crewkerne is a community as well as selecting ward in Somerset, England, positioned 9 miles (14 km) southern west of Yeovil as well as 7 miles (11 kilometres) eastern of Chard in the South Somerset area close to the boundary with Dorset. The civil parish of West Crewkerne includes the hamlets of Woolminstone and also Henley. The community rests on the River Parrett, A30 road and also West of England Main Line railway. The earliest created document of Crewkerne remains in the 899 will of Alfred the Great who left it to his youngest kid Æthelweard. After the Norman occupation it was held by William the Conqueror and in the Domesday Survey of 1086 was referred to as a royal chateau. Crewkerne Castle was perhaps a Norman motte castle. The community grew up in the late mediaeval duration around the fabric industry, its riches preserved in the fifteenth century Church of St Bartholomew. During the 18th and 19th centuries the major sector was cloth making, consisting of webbing, and also sails for the Royal Navy. Regional ecological sites consist of the Bincombe Beeches Local Nature Reserve and the Millwater biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. Crewkerne railway station is served by South Western Railway on the major south western railway line. There are regional supermarkets and also local stores, and some local market. The community is the birthplace of numerous notable individuals and has differed cultural as well as sporting centers consisting of those at Wadham Community School.
