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CREWKERNE

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 433 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CREWKERNE  , a

market
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town in the
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southern
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parliamentary division of
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Somersetshire, England, 132 M . W.S.W. of
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London by the London & South-Western railway . Pop. of urban
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district (1900 4226 . It is pleasantly situated in a wooded hollow, in the upper valley of the
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river Parret . The church of St Bartholomew, one of the finest in the county, is in the Perpendicular style characteristic of the district . The ornamentation throughout is beautiful, and the west front especially notable . The grammar school
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dates from 1499, but occupies
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modern buildings .
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Sail-
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cloth, horsehair, cloth and webbing are manufactured .

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