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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 community currently exists just east of the junction of the A303 (London to Exeter) as well as the A358 (Taunton to Chard as well as Axminster). The church consists of the community of Sea. Ilminster is stated in documents dating from 725 and also in a Charter granted to the Abbey of Muchelney (10 miles (16 kilometres) to the north) by King Ethelred in 995. Ilminster is also mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) as Ileminstre indicating ‘The church on the River Isle’ from the Old English ysle and mynster. By this period Ilminster was a growing community as well as was granted the right to hold a regular market, which it still does. Ilminster was part of the numerous Abdick and also Bulstone. In 1645 throughout the English Civil War Ilminster was the scene of an altercation in between parliamentary soldiers under Edward Massie as well as Royalist pressures under Lord Goring who fought for control of the bridges before the Battle of Langport. The community contains the buildings of a sixteenth-century grade school, the Ilminster Meeting House, which works as the community’s art gallery and also opera house. There is likewise a Gospel Hall.