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Ilminster is a community and civil parish in the countryside of south west Somerset, England, with a population of 5,808. Bypassed in 1988, the town currently lies simply east of the joint of the A303 (London to Exeter) as well as the A358 (Taunton to Chard and Axminster). The church consists of the district of Sea. Ilminster is mentioned in records dating from 725 and in a Charter provided to the Abbey of Muchelney (10 miles (16 kilometres) to the north) by King Ethelred in 995. Ilminster is also discussed in the Domesday Book (1086) as Ileminstre implying ‘The church on the River Isle’ from the Old English ysle as well as mynster. By this duration Ilminster was a flourishing neighborhood as well as was provided the right to hold an once a week market, which it still does. Ilminster belonged to the hundred of Abdick as well as Bulstone. In 1645 throughout the English Civil War Ilminster was the scene of a skirmish between legislative soldiers under Edward Massie and also Royalist pressures under Lord Goring that defended control of the bridges prior to the Battle of Langport. The town has the structures of a sixteenth-century grade school, the Ilminster Meeting House, which works as the community’s art gallery and music hall. There is also a Gospel Hall.