Crewkerne

Crewkerne, a market-town of Somersetshire, in the fertile valley of the Parret, 15 miles SE. of Taunton. It has a cruciform Perpendicular church, with a splendid west front; a grammar-school (1499), occupying commodious new buildings; a railway station (1860); and manufactures of sailcloth, girth-web, hair-seating, &c. Pop. of parish (1891) 4946; of town, 3500. See Pulman's Book of the Axe (4th ed. 1875).