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Somerton
Somerton is a town as well as civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It provided its name to the region and also was quickly, around the beginning of the 14th century, the county town, as well as around 900 was possibly the capital of Wessex. It has held a weekly market since the Middle Ages, and the major square with its market cross is today an attractive area for site visitors. Situated on the River Cary, about 8.8 miles (14.2 km) north-west of Yeovil, Somerton has its very own town council offering a population of 4,697 as of 2011. Citizens are often described locally as Somertonians. The civil parish consists of the districts of Etsome, Hurcot, Catsgore, as well as Catcombe. The history of Somerton dates back to the Anglo-Saxon age, when it was an important political and also commercial centre. After the Norman occupation of England the significance of the town declined, despite being the county town of Somerset in the late thirteenth century and early fourteenth century. Having lost county town standing, Somerton after that came to be a market town in the Middle Ages, whose economy was supported by transportation systems using the River Parrett, and later on rail transportation via the Great Western Railway, and also by light industries including handwear cover production and also plaster mining. In the centre of Somerton the vast market square, with its octagonal roofed market cross, is bordered by old homes, while close by is the 13th century Church of St Michael and All Angels. Somerton additionally had relate to Muchelney Abbey in the Middle Ages. The BBC drama The Monocled Mutineer was shot in Somerton from 1985 to 1986.
