Hot Tub in Ilminster

Ilminster

Ilminster is a community as well as civil parish in the countryside of south west Somerset, England, with a population of 5,808. Bypassed in 1988, the town now lies just east of the joint of the A303 (London to Exeter) as well as the A358 (Taunton to Chard as well as Axminster). The church includes the district of Sea. Ilminster is discussed in documents dating from 725 and also in a Charter provided to the Abbey of Muchelney (10 miles (16 km) to the north) by King Ethelred in 995. Ilminster is additionally mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) as Ileminstre indicating 'The church on the River Isle' from the Old English ysle and mynster. By this period Ilminster was a flourishing neighborhood and was granted the right to hold a weekly market, which it still does. Ilminster was part of the thousand of Abdick and Bulstone. In 1645 throughout the English Civil War Ilminster was the scene of a skirmish in between parliamentary soldiers under Edward Massie and Royalist forces under Lord Goring that fought for control of the bridges before the Battle of Langport. The community contains the buildings of a sixteenth-century grade school, the Ilminster Meeting House, which acts as the community's art gallery as well as opera house. There is also a Gospel Hall.