26 Jun
Wooden sash windows
Wincanton - BA9
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Wooden sash windows enquiry
Somerton
Somerton is a community and civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It gave its name to the area and was briefly, around the beginning of the 14th century, the county town, and also around 900 was potentially the funding of Wessex. It has actually held an once a week market considering that the Middle Ages, as well as the primary square with its market cross is today an appealing area for visitors. Situated on the River Cary, roughly 8.8 miles (14.2 kilometres) north-west of Yeovil, Somerton has its own town council serving a population of 4,697 as of 2011. Residents are typically described locally as Somertonians. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Etsome, Hurcot, Catsgore, and also Catcombe. The background of Somerton dates back to the Anglo-Saxon age, when it was an essential political as well as industrial centre. After the Norman conquest of England the value of the community declined, in spite of being the county town of Somerset in the late thirteenth century and very early fourteenth century. Having shed county town status, Somerton then ended up being a market town in the Middle Ages, whose economic situation was supported by transportation systems using the River Parrett, and later rail transport using the Great Western Railway, and also by light industries consisting of glove making and gypsum mining. In the centre of Somerton the large market square, with its octagonal roofed market cross, is surrounded by old residences, 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 recorded in Somerton from 1985 to 1986.
