Crewkerne
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Crewkerne is a town and electoral ward in south Somerset, England, 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Yeovil and 7 miles (11 km) east of Chard. The civil parish of West Crewkerne includes the hamlets of Coombe, Woolminstone and Henley, and borders the county of Dorset to the south. The town is on the main headwater of the River Parrett, A30 road and West of England Main Line railway, in modern times the slower route between the capital and the southwest peninsula, having been eclipsed by the Taunton route.
Church of St Bartholomew, Crewkerne
Will of Alfred the Great, AD 873–888, mentions land at Crucern (11th-century copy, British Library Stowe MS 944, ff. 29v–33r)
Crewkerne Town Hall
Crewkerne Fire Station
A30 road
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The A30 is a major road in England, running 284 miles (457 km) WSW from London to Land's End.
Approaching Chiverton Cross from the east
The Road from LONDON to the LANDS END (1675), John Ogilby
The A30 crossing the River Yarty. The road was built by the Chard Turnpike Trust in the mid 19th century to compete with the New Direct Road, later the A303.
The Great South West Road section of the A30 borders Heathrow Airport.