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Ilminster
Ilminster is a town 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 eastern of the junction of the A303 (London to Exeter) and the A358 (Taunton to Chard and Axminster). The parish includes the district of Sea. Ilminster is stated in records dating from 725 and also in a Charter approved to the Abbey of Muchelney (10 miles (16 km) to the north) by King Ethelred in 995. Ilminster is also pointed out in the Domesday Book (1086) as Ileminstre meaning 'The church on the River Isle' from the Old English ysle as well as mynster. By this period Ilminster was a flourishing area and was given the right to hold a regular market, which it still does. Ilminster became part of the numerous Abdick as well as Bulstone. In 1645 during the English Civil War Ilminster was the scene of a skirmish between legislative troops under Edward Massie as well as Royalist forces under Lord Goring that fought for control of the bridges prior to the Battle of Langport. The community consists of the buildings of a sixteenth-century grammar school, the Ilminster Meeting House, which acts as the community's art gallery and also concert hall. There is additionally a Gospel Hall.