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WIVELISCOMBE (pronounced Wilscomb)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 765 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WIVELISCOMBE (pronounced Wilscomb) , a See also:market See also:town in the western See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Somersetshire, See also:England, 91 m. W. of See also:Taunton by the See also:Great Western railway. Pop. (1901), 2246. It stands on a picturesque sloping site in a hilly See also:district, and has some agricultural See also:trade and a See also:brewing See also:industry, while in the neighbourhood are See also:slate quarries. Traces of a large See also:Roman See also:camp may still be seen to the See also:south-See also:east of Wiveliscombe (Wellescombe, Wilscombe, Wiviscombe), which is near the See also:line of a Roman road, and hoards of Roman coins have been discovered in the neighbourhood. The town probably owed its origin to the suitability of its position for See also:defence, and it was the site of a Danish fort, later replaced by a Saxon See also:settlement. The overlords were the bishops of See also:Bath and See also:Wells, who had a See also:palace and See also:park here. They obtained a See also:grant of freewarren in 1257. No See also:charter granting self-See also:government to Wiveliscombe has been found, and the only See also:evidence for the traditional existence of a See also:borough is that See also:part of the town is called " the borough," and that until the See also:middle of the 19th See also:century a See also:bailiff and a portreeve were annually chosen by the See also:court leet. A weekly market on Tuesdays, granted to the See also:bishop of Bath and Wells in 1284, is still held. During the 17th and 18th centuries the town was a centre of the woollen manufacture.

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