Crewkerne
Crewkerne is a town as well as electoral ward in Somerset, England, located 9 miles (14 km) south west of Yeovil and also 7 miles (11 km) east of Chard in the South Somerset district near the boundary with Dorset. The civil parish of West Crewkerne consists of 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 that left it to his youngest kid Æthelweard. After the Norman conquest it was held by William the Conqueror as well as in the Domesday Survey of 1086 was described as a royal estate. Crewkerne Castle was possibly a Norman motte castle. The town matured in the late mediaeval period around the textile industry, its riches preserved in the fifteenth century Church of St Bartholomew. During the 18th and 19th centuries the primary industry was fabric making, consisting of webbing, as well as sails for the Royal Navy. Regional environmental sites consist of the Bincombe Beeches Local Nature Reserve and also the Millwater biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. Crewkerne train station is served by South Western Railway on the primary south western railway line. There are neighborhood supermarkets as well as regional stores, and some regional industry. The town is the birthplace of several noteworthy people and has differed social and also showing off centers consisting of those at Wadham Community School.
