Axminster is a market town and a civil parish on the eastern border of Devon county in England, about 28 miles (45 km) from the county town of Exeter. The city is built on a hill overlooking the Kapak River that leads to the English Channel in Axmouth, and is in the district district of East Devon. In the 2001 census, it has a population of 5,626, rising to 5,761 in the 2011 census. The city contains two electoral wards (cities and villages) the total number of both neighborhoods being a population of 7,110. The market is still held every Thursday.
Axminster gives a name for this type of carpet. Axminster type electric looms are capable of weaving high quality carpets with different colors and patterns. While Axminster carpets are made in the city by Axminster Carpets Ltd, this type of carpet is now produced worldwide.
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Histori
The city dates from the Celtic era around 300 BC. It is located on two main Roman streets: Fosse Road from Lincoln to Seaton, and the Dorchester Road to Exeter. There is a Roman fort at the crossroads at Woodbury Farm, just south of this city. Axminster appeared on the Peutinger Map, one of only 15 English cities on a Roman era map.
Axminster was recorded at the end of the 9th century as Ascanmynster and in the Domesday Book 1086 as Aixeministra . Its name means "monastery or big church by the River of Kapak" and is a mixture of languages; the river name Ax has Celtic origins and mynster is an Old English word.
The history of the city is closely linked to the carpet industry, started by Thomas Whitty in the Court House near the church in 1755. The completion of the first-hand tufted carpet was marked by the rumbling of bells from the parish church while taking much time and effort to complete it.
In 1210, a charter was granted to a city that included the right to hold a weekly cattle market that took place in the market square until it was transferred to Trinity Square in 1834. It then moved in October 1912 to a site on South Street where it was held during 94 years old. Finally closed in 2006 after the British foot and mouth outbreak of 2001. A building on the site then continues to be used for public auction until all buildings are destroyed and replaced by housing construction.
The city is on a training route from London to Exeter. In 1760, the lodge named The George Hotel opened at the corner of Lyme Street and Chard Street on the site of an old inn called Cross Keys which was destroyed by fire in 1759. More than 16 trainers a day will stop at the hotel in its heyday for drinks and to change horses, buildings still standing but currently uninhabited. Axminster is on the route of The Trafalgar Way which is the name given to the historic route used to carry the news with the news of the Battle of Trafalgar ashore from Falmouth, Cornwall to Admiralty in London in 1805 and there is a plaque to commemorate this fact. In the city center.
Part of the Axminster parish has historically been an exclusively Dorset exclusion to the Counties (Detached Parts) Act of 1844, when it was fully incorporated into Devon.
The Axminster railway station opened on 19 July 1860, with London and the South Western Railway (LSWR) offering direct services between Central Station in Exeter and Yeovil. The station building was designed by LSWR architect Sir William Tite in gothic style. In 1903, the branch line from Axminster to Lyme Regis opened. This branch line was closed with Beeching cuts, in the 1960s. One machine has been preserved on the Bluebell Line, in Sussex, while the station was disassembled and reconstructed at New Alresford, on the Water Sewers Line, in Hampshire.
Axminster is the starting point south of the Taunton Strip Line, a World War II line of defense consisting of pill boxes and anti-tank barriers, which run north to the Somerset coast near Highbridge.
Nearby Kilmington is used as the location for the 1998 LWT adaptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles . The celebrity chef and TV presenter Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall owns River Cottage H.Q. on a 60 hectare (24 acre) farm in the Ax valley. He had bought an old inn that once provided a city ballroom, now converted into a store/market of organic produce and cafeteria.
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Geography
The Abbey Gate is located south of the city near the A35 and A358 intersections.
Other villages within 5 miles (8.0 km) from Axminster include Chardstock, Colyford, Combpyne, Dalwood, Hawkchurch, Kilmington, Membury, Musbury, Raymond's Hill, Rousdon, Shute, Smallridge, Tytherleigh, Uplyme and Whitford.
Landmarks
- Axminster Museum
- Blackdown Hills Area of ​​Extraordinary Beauty
- East Devon Region of Extraordinary Natural Beauty
- East Devon Road
- Forde Abbey
- Jurassic Beach
- Fortress Lambert
- Loughwood Meeting House
- Musbury Castle
- Shute Barton
Facilities
The city has Cloakham Lawns, Ax Valley Valley Sports Center, and Flamingo Swimming Pool, libraries, several churches and a local history museum. Shops include three supermarkets, a small department store, Trinity House, and several independent retailers. The Guildhall is a theater with a meeting room that hosts many events and clubs such as Axminster Drama Club and Axminster Operatic Society. The city is also home to a small local hospital.
Education
- Ax Valley Academy
- Axminster Community Elementary School
- St. Mary Elementary School
- All Community Elementary Schools of the Saints
Transport
Road
Axminster is at the intersection of the A358, which is connected to the A303 at Ilminster, and the A35 from Southampton to Honiton, which has been diverted by a bypass to the south of the city.
Rel
The Axminster railway station is on the West of England Main Line that runs from Exeter via Salisbury to London Waterloo.
Twin town
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Famous people
- Steve Benbow, folk musician
- William Buckland, geologist, and paleontologist
See also
- Taunton Stop Line
Note
References
- Mee, A. English King: Devon (Hodder and Stoughton, 1965); pp.Ã, 25-26.
- Mills, A. D. Place-Name English Dictionary . Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-19-280074-4.
External links
- Ã, "Axminster". EncyclopÃÆ'Â|dia Britannica . 3 (issue 11). 1911. p.Ã, 68. Ã,
- Axminster in Curlie (based on DMOZ)
- Devon Local Studies - Axminster community page
- Axminster in Domesday Book
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