Crewkerne
Crewkerne is a town and also electoral ward in Somerset, England, located 9 miles (14 km) south west of Yeovil as well as 7 miles (11 kilometres) eastern of Chard in the South Somerset area close to the border with Dorset. The civil parish of West Crewkerne consists of the hamlets of Woolminstone as well as Henley. The town lies 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 boy Æthelweard. After the Norman occupation it was held by William the Conqueror and in the Domesday Survey of 1086 was described as a royal manor. Crewkerne Castle was potentially a Norman motte castle. The town matured in the late mediaeval period around the fabric sector, its wealth protected in the fifteenth century Church of St Bartholomew. Throughout the 18th as well as 19th centuries the major market was fabric making, consisting of webbing, and also sails for the Royal Navy. Local environmental sites include the Bincombe Beeches Local Nature Reserve and also the Millwater organic Site of Special Scientific Interest. Crewkerne train station is offered by South Western Railway on the main south western railway line. There are local grocery stores and regional shops, and some neighborhood industry. The community is the birthplace of numerous noteworthy people as well as has actually differed social and showing off centers consisting of those at Wadham Community School.
