Crewkerne
Crewkerne is a town as well as electoral ward in Somerset, England, located 9 miles (14 kilometres) south west of Yeovil as well as 7 miles (11 km) eastern of Chard in the South Somerset district near to the border with Dorset. The civil parish of West Crewkerne consists of the hamlets of Woolminstone and also Henley. The town rests on the River Parrett, A30 roadway and West of England Main Line railway. The earliest written record of Crewkerne remains in the 899 will certainly of Alfred the Great who left it to his youngest child Æthelweard. After the Norman occupation it was held by William the Conqueror as well as in the Domesday Survey of 1086 was described as an imperial mansion. Crewkerne Castle was perhaps a Norman motte castle. The town matured in the late mediaeval duration around the textile industry, its riches preserved in the fifteenth century Church of St Bartholomew. During the 18th as well as 19th centuries the major market was cloth production, consisting of webbing, and also sails for the Royal Navy. Local environmental sites consist of the Bincombe Beeches Local Nature Reserve as well as the Millwater biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. Crewkerne railway station is served by South Western Railway on the primary south western railway line. There are regional grocery stores as well as regional stores, and also some local industry. The community is the native home of a number of noteworthy people as well as has actually varied social as well as sporting centers consisting of those at Wadham Community School.