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Crewkerne
Sign in to saveCrewkerne ( ) is a town and electoral ward in south Somerset, England, southwest of Yeovil and east of Chard. A separate civil parish of West Crewkerne includes the hamlets of Clapton, Coombe, Woolminstone and Henley, and borders the county of Dorset to the south. The town is on the main headwater of the River Parrett, the A30 road and the West of England railway line.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Crewkerne
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Bartholomew Crewkerne.jpg
- UK place.static_image_alt
- Decorated yellow stone building with square tower.
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Bartholomew's Church, Crewkerne
- UK place.population
- 7,333
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021 census)
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- ST445095
- UK place.civil_parish
- Crewkerne
- UK place.unitary_england
- Somerset
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Somerset
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
- CREWKERNE
- UK place.postcode_area
- TA
- UK place.postcode_district
- TA18
- UK place.dial_code
- 01460
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Yeovil
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Crewkerne ( ) is a town and electoral ward in south Somerset, England, southwest of Yeovil and east of Chard. A separate civil parish of West Crewkerne includes the hamlets of Clapton, Coombe, Woolminstone and Henley, and borders the county of Dorset to the south. The town is on the main headwater of the River Parrett, the A30 road and the West of England railway line.
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 demonstrated in the 15th-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.