Ilchester features [7]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 18 May 2023

In Market Place is this former public weighbridge installed soon after 1870 by Ilchester Corporation. Constructed of cast and wrought iron machinery with standard weighing plates set into the road, the balance and works housed in an early 20th century timber shed. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1345745 Ilchester is a village in Somerset, situated astride the River Yeo or Ivel, some 4½ miles northwest of Yeovil and about 18 miles east of Taunton. Originally an important Roman town, Lindinis, on the Fosse Way and later a market town, in the medieval period Ilchester was the county town. It declined in size and importance and the last markets were held in 1833. The name was recorded in the Domesday Book as Givelcestre, meaning "Roman fort on the River Yeo".

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