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Ilminster
Ilminster is a community and civil parish in the countryside of south west Somerset, England, with a population of 5,808. Bypassed in 1988, the community now exists simply east of the joint of the A303 (London to Exeter) as well as the A358 (Taunton to Chard as well as Axminster). The parish consists of the hamlet of Sea. Ilminster is stated in files dating from 725 and in a Charter granted to the Abbey of Muchelney (10 miles (16 kilometres) to the north) by King Ethelred in 995. Ilminster is also mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) as Ileminstre implying 'The church on the River Isle' from the Old English ysle as well as mynster. By this period Ilminster was a prospering neighborhood as well as was provided the right to hold a weekly market, which it still does. Ilminster belonged to the thousand of Abdick and also Bulstone. In 1645 throughout the English Civil War Ilminster was the scene of an altercation in between parliamentary troops under Edward Massie and Royalist forces under Lord Goring who defended control of the bridges prior to the Battle of Langport. The town includes the structures of a sixteenth-century grade school, the Ilminster Meeting House, which acts as the community's art gallery as well as music hall. There is likewise a Gospel Hall.