Wincanton is a village as well as selecting ward in South Somerset, southwest England. The town exists off the A303 road, a main course between London and also South West England, and has some light market. The town and electoral ward has a population of 5,272. In the late 1890s the West Surrey Central Dairy Company acquired a neighborhood creamery. In 1908, after creating a dried milk baby powder, it altered its name to Cow & Gate. The creamery and also dairy items manufacturing facility had its very own house sidings from the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway station, giving access for milk trains. In order to handle the transport troubles across its promptly broadening creamery, milk bottling as well as doorstep delivery network, Cow & Gate created a committed logistics arm in 1920. Drawn out in 2002 from follower firm Unigate, Wincanton PLC is the UK's 2nd biggest logistics company. The firm still has a milk items base in the town, although its head office function relocated to Chippenham, Wiltshire in 2005. In 1999, Unigate sold its continuing to be dairies products to Dairy Crest, which still has a creamery and milk handling plant in the town, but has actually sold celebrity service to Adams Foods Ltd., manufacturer of the Pilgrim's Choice brand of Cheddar cheese, in 2010 the second-rate selling brand name in the UK.