Ilchester
A busy road through a historic village. The River Yeo shows up around 7:40.
Ilchester is a village and civil parish in the county of Somerset, England. It’s on the River Yeo (a tributary of the River Parrett in north Dorset and south Somerset).
River Yeo: By Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5588983
What’s a civil parish? Something like a county or regional district, e.g., the Regional District of Nanaimo?
Ilchester was originally a Roman town. It was first a fort called Lindinis, then a town on the Fosse Way:
Foss Way: By Neddyseagoon at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6889372
The place-name Ilchester first shows up in the Domesday Book — a survey of much of England and parts of Wales that was completed in 1086. “The survey’s main purpose was to record the annual value of every piece of landed property to its lord, and the resources in land, labour force, and livestock from which the value derived.”1
Ilchester Friary was founded between 1221 and 1260. I’m not sure what “founded between” means in this sense, because the article goes on to say that it is believed to be the birthplace of Roger Bacon, possibly in 1213 or 1214.2 (The Dominicans, Friars Preachers or Black Friars settled inIlchester sometime between 1221 and 1260. 3)
Ilchester was a base for Henry III for a short period in 1250.