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Ilminster is a community and also civil parish in the countryside of south west Somerset, England, with a population of 5,808. Bypassed in 1988, the community currently exists simply eastern of the junction of the A303 (London to Exeter) as well as the A358 (Taunton to Chard as well as Axminster). The parish consists of the community of Sea. Ilminster is mentioned in records dating from 725 and also in a Charter granted to the Abbey of Muchelney (10 miles (16 km) to the north) by King Ethelred in 995. Ilminster is additionally discussed in the Domesday Book (1086) as Ileminstre suggesting ‘The church on the River Isle’ from the Old English ysle and also mynster. By this period Ilminster was a growing community as well as was approved the right to hold a regular market, which it still does. Ilminster belonged to the thousand of Abdick as well as Bulstone. In 1645 during the English Civil War Ilminster was the scene of an altercation in between legislative troops under Edward Massie as well as Royalist pressures under Lord Goring that fought for control of the bridges before the Battle of Langport. The town contains the structures of a sixteenth-century grade school, the Ilminster Meeting House, which acts as the town’s art gallery and auditorium. There is also a Gospel Hall.