Axminster
Axminster is a market town and also civil parish on the eastern boundary of the area of Devon in England, some 28 miles (45 kilometres) from the county town of Exeter. The community is improved a hillside forgeting the River Axe which heads towards the English Channel at Axmouth, and is in the East Devon city government area. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 5,626, raising to 5,761 at the 2011 census. The community contains two selecting wards (town and also rural) the complete sum of both wards being a population of 7,110. The marketplace is still held every Thursday. Axminster offered its name to a sort of carpet. An Axminster-type power loom is capable of weaving high quality carpetings with numerous varying colours and also patterns. While Axminster carpetings are made in the town by Axminster Carpets Ltd, this kind of carpeting is now made all over the world.