Ilchester houses [18]
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Ilchester houses [18]
Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 18 May 2023
Number 4 West Street is a cottage in a terrace built along this side of the road in or soon after 1820, and probably of the last group to be built. Constructed of brick under a tile roof, The upper windows are horizontal sliding sashes. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1223195 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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51.000406
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