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Crewkerne & District Museum

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Crewkerne & District Museum
Crewkerne & District Museum
Crewkerne & District Museum
Crewkerne & District Museum
Crewkerne & District Museum
Crewkerne & District Museum
Crewkerne & District Museum
Crewkerne & District Museum
Crewkerne & District Museum
Crewkerne & District Museum
Crewkerne & District Museum
Crewkerne & District Museum
Crewkerne & District Museum
Phone:
+44 1460 77079

Address:
Market Square, Crewkerne TA18 7LP, England

Crewkerne is a town and electoral ward in Somerset, England, situated 9 miles south west of Yeovil and 7 miles east of Chard in the South Somerset district close to the border with Dorset. The civil parish of West Crewkerne includes the hamlets of Woolminstone and Henley. The town lies on the River Parrett, A30 road and West of England Main Line railway. The earliest written record of Crewkerne is in the 899 will of Alfred the Great who left it to his youngest son Æthelweard. After the Norman conquest it was held by William the Conqueror and in the Domesday Survey of 1086 was described as a royal manor. Crewkerne Castle was possibly a Norman motte castle. The town grew up in the late mediaeval period around the textile industry, its wealth preserved in the fifteenth century Church of St Bartholomew. During the 18th and 19th centuries the main industry was cloth making, including webbing, and sails for the Royal Navy. Local ecological sites include the Bincombe Beeches Local Nature Reserve and the Millwater biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. Crewkerne railway station is served by South Western Railway on the main south western railway line. There are local supermarkets and local shops, and some local industry. The town is the birthplace of several notable people and has varied cultural and sporting facilities including those at Wadham Community School.
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