Crewkerne

While we'd been heading for Crewkerne in Somerset, haring down the M5, quite in the wrong direction.

Snell-Pym » The Camping Holiday Of Despair 2008

Hills, and with delightful views by the way, Crewkerne is reached in eight miles from Chard.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

It is about six miles from Toller, Bridport and Crewkerne, and therefore as quiet as one would expect it to be.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

Crewkerne on the main line of the South Western Railway is that most used.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

Cricket St. Thomas on the south of the Crewkerne road.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

Crewkerne in Dorset, reminds me how often the word "walking" occurs in any description of Wordsworth's existence.

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

As they drove to that place from Bath, they would probably go by way of Shepton Mallet, Somerton and Crewkerne, and, leaving Axminster a couple of miles to their right, would join the Lyme Road where an old inn called "The Hunter's Lodge" stands.

Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends 1901

A squadron of horse trotted by, closely followed by the fourth regiment, bearing in its van the standards of Beaminster, Crewkerne, Langport, and Chidiock, all quiet Somersetshire villages, which had sent out their manhood to strike a blow for the old cause.

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Misterton, near Crewkerne, Somersetshire, for upwards of thirty years.

The Parish Clerk 1892

He stayed a short time at Crewkerne with his niece Mrs. Sparks.

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874