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Crewkerne in Somerset County England History and GeographyCREWKERNE, a market town and parish, in the hundred of CREWKERNE, county of SOMERSET, 10 miles (S.W. by S.) from Ilchester, and 132 (W.S.W.) from London, containing 3434 inhabitants. This place, being a royal manor, anciently enjoyed many privileges, and in the reign of Henry II. was exempt from taxation. The town is pleasantly situated in a fertile valley, watered by branches of the rivers Parret and Axe, and sheltered by hills richly planted; it consists of five principal streets, diverging from a spacious market-place, in the centre of which a large and commodious market-house has been erected: the houses are in general well built and of handsome appearance, and the inhabitants are amply supplied with water. Sail-cloth, stockings, and dowlas, are manufactured here. The market, which is well supplied with corn, is on Saturday: the fair is on the 4th of September, for horses, bullocks, linen-drapery, cheese, and toys. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells, endowed with £800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Winchester. The church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, is a spacious cruciform structure in the decorated style of English architecture, with a lofty and highly enriched tower rising from the intersection, crowned with battlements and ornamented with angular turrets: the interior is finely arranged, the windows are large and filled with rich tracery, and the piers and arches which support the tower are lofty and of graceful elevation; behind the altar is a small room, formerly the confessional, having a door at each end. The free grammar school was founded in 1449, by John de Combe, Precentor of the cathedral of Excter, who endowed it with lands now producing £300 per annum: there are four exhibitions, of £5 each, to any college at Oxford, founded by the Rev. William Owsley, who gave a rent-charge of £20, which, from want of applications, has been for some time accumulating for the augmentation of the exhibitions. A charity school is supported by subscription; and there are two almshouses, one of which, for six aged men and six aged women, was in 1707 endowed with a rent-charge of £29, by Mrs. Mary Davis. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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