Biomass Boiler in Ilminster

Ilminster

Ilminster is a town and also civil parish in the countryside of south west Somerset, England, with a population of 5,808. Bypassed in 1988, the community currently lies simply east of the junction of the A303 (London to Exeter) and also the A358 (Taunton to Chard and Axminster). The church consists of the hamlet of Sea. Ilminster is stated in papers dating from 725 and in a Charter given to the Abbey of Muchelney (10 miles (16 km) to the north) by King Ethelred in 995. Ilminster is additionally discussed in the Domesday Book (1086) as Ileminstre implying 'The church on the River Isle' from the Old English ysle and also mynster. By this period Ilminster was a flourishing area and was given the right to hold a regular market, which it still does. Ilminster belonged to the hundred of Abdick as well as Bulstone. In 1645 throughout the English Civil War Ilminster was the scene of a skirmish between legislative soldiers under Edward Massie and also Royalist pressures under Lord Goring who defended control of the bridges prior to the Battle of Langport. The community includes the buildings of a sixteenth-century grade school, the Ilminster Meeting House, which serves as the town's art gallery and opera house. There is likewise a Gospel Hall.