Somerton
Somerton is a community and civil parish in the English region of Somerset. It gave its name to the county and also was quickly, around the start of the 14th century, the county town, and also around 900 was potentially the resources of Wessex. It has held a regular market because the Middle Ages, as well as the main square with its market cross is today an eye-catching place for visitors. Situated on the River Cary, about 8.8 miles (14.2 kilometres) north-west of Yeovil, Somerton has its own town council serving a population of 4,697 since 2011. Locals are usually referred to locally as Somertonians. The civil parish includes the districts of Etsome, Hurcot, Catsgore, and also Catcombe. The background of Somerton go back to the Anglo-Saxon era, when it was a crucial political and industrial centre. After the Norman conquest of England the significance of the community decreased, in spite of being the county town of Somerset in the late thirteenth century and also very early fourteenth century. Having shed county town status, Somerton after that came to be a market community in the Middle Ages, whose economic climate was sustained by transportation systems using the River Parrett, and also later rail transportation by means of the Great Western Railway, as well as by light markets consisting of handwear cover making as well as gypsum mining. In the centre of Somerton the wide market square, with its octagonal roofed market cross, is bordered by old houses, while close by is the 13th century Church of St Michael and All Angels. Somerton additionally had links with Muchelney Abbey in the Middle Ages. The BBC drama The Monocled Mutineer was shot in Somerton from 1985 to 1986.
