 Arms of Axminster Town Council Axminster is a small market town on the eastern border of Devon, England. The town is built on a hill overlooking the River Axe which heads towards the English Channel at Axmouth. The market is still held every Thursday. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1802x2589, 189 KB) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
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Arms of Axminster Town Council. ...
Arms of Axminster Town Council. ...
The inner harbour, Brixham, south Devon, at low tide Devon is a large county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ...
Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages English (de facto) Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st...
The River Axe is a river in Devon, in the south of England. ...
Satellite view of the English Channel The English Channel (French: La Manche, IPA: , the sleeve), also for some time known in England as the British Sea, is the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the...
Axmouth is a village and civil parish in the East Devon district of Devon, England, near the mouth of the River Axe. ...
A physical marketplace in Portugal enables buyers and sellers of produce to do business with each other. ...
Axminster gave its name to a type of carpet. An Axminster type power loom is capable of weaving high quality carpets with infinite colours and patterns. While Axminster carpet is made in the town of Axminster this type of carpet is now manufactured all over the world.
History The town dates back to the Celtic times of around 300 BC. Axminster was recorded in the late 9th century as Ascanmynster and in the Doomsday Book of 1086 as Aixeministra. The name means "Monastery or large church by the River Axe" and is a mixture of languages; the river name Axe has Celtic origins and mynster is an Old English word. The Domesday Book was a census carried out in England in the eleventh century. ...
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The history of the town is very much linked to the carpet industry, started by Thomas Whitty in 1755.
Axminster Railway Station was opened on 19th July 1860, with the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) offering direct services between Queen Street Station in Exeter and Yeovil. The station building was designed by the LSWR's architect Sir William Tite in mock gothic style. In 1903, the branch line from Axminster to Lyme Regis was opened. Axminster railway station serves the town of Axminster in East Devon. ...
The London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) was a railway company in England from 1840 to 1923. ...
The city of Exeter is the county town of Devon, in England, UK. It is located at , . In the 2001 census its population was recorded at 111,066. ...
Map sources for Yeovil at grid reference ST5516 Yeovil is a town in south Somerset, England, on the A30 and A37. ...
Location within the British Isles A photograph of the Cobb in Lyme Regis, with boats grounded behind the Cobb at low tide. ...
Geography Axminster is located at 50°47′00″N, 03°00′00″W (50.7833, -3.0000)1. A gazetteer is a geographic dictionary index; a combination atlas/almanac. ...
See also The Taunton Stop Line was a World War II defensive line in southwest England. ...
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References - Mills, A. D. Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-280074-4.
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