Ilminster
Sign in to saveIlminster is a market town and civil parish in Somerset, England, with a population of 5,808. Bypassed in 1988, the town now lies just east of the junction of the A303 (London to Exeter) and the A358 (Taunton to Chard and Axminster). The parish includes the hamlet of Sea.
Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Mary's church, Ilminster.jpg
- UK place.static_image_alt
- Elaborately ornamented stone building with square tower.
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Ilminster's Minster Church
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Ilminster
- UK place.population
- 5,808
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.unitary_england
- Somerset Council
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Somerset
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Yeovil
- UK place.post_town
- ILMINSTER
- UK place.postcode_district
- TA19
- UK place.postcode_area
- TA
- UK place.dial_code
- 01460
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- ST359145
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Ilminster is a market town and civil parish in Somerset, England, with a population of 5,808. Bypassed in 1988, the town now lies just east of the junction of the A303 (London to Exeter) and the A358 (Taunton to Chard and Axminster). The parish includes the hamlet of Sea.
==History== Ilminster is mentioned in documents dating from 725 and in a Charter granted to Muchelney Abbey ( to the north) by Æthelred the Unready in 995. Ilminster is also mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ‘Ileminstre’, meaning 'The church on the River Isle' from the Old English ysle and mynster. By this period Ilminster was a flourishing community and was granted the right to hold a weekly market, which it still does.