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Crewkerne is a town and selecting ward in Somerset, England, located 9 miles (14 km) south west of Yeovil and also 7 miles (11 km) east of Chard in the South Somerset district close to the boundary with Dorset. The civil parish of West Crewkerne consists of the hamlets of Woolminstone as well as Henley. The community pushes the River Parrett, A30 roadway and West of England Main Line railway. The earliest written record of Crewkerne remains in the 899 will certainly 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 an imperial mansion. Crewkerne Castle was possibly a Norman motte castle. The community matured in the late mediaeval period around the textile market, its wealth maintained in the fifteenth century Church of St Bartholomew. Throughout the 18th as well as 19th centuries the major sector was cloth production, including webbing, as well as sails for the Royal Navy. Regional ecological sites include the Bincombe Beeches Local Nature Reserve and the Millwater biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. Crewkerne train station is served by South Western Railway on the major south western railway line. There are local supermarkets as well as local stores, as well as some local market. The community is the birth place of a number of significant individuals and also has actually varied social and also sporting facilities consisting of those at Wadham Community School.