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Downtown Crewkerne.
©Richard Knights
A slow moving stream of Friday evening traffic passes through the streets of Crewkerne.
©Richard Knights
Market Street with the 18th century market house shown in the background. This is now used as the town hall.
©Liz Martin
Lawrences of Crewkerne is based in a renovated factory.
©John Evans
A complex of individual businesses housed in what was originally Robert Bird's factory where he employed 180 people. Because of the amount of flax that used to be grown locally, Crewkerne was known for its sailcloth, webbing and cloth manufacture. A speciality was sailcloth for racing yachts such as HMY Britannia,the Endeavour the three Valkyries, etc, as well as some American yachts competing in the America Cup.
©Sarah Smith
Dist:0.1km<br/>St Peter's in South Street is now redundant and the site will be used to build more houses. The Roman Catholic parish now shares the Methodist Church building further along the road.
©Sarah Smith
Dist:0.2km<br/>The main road from Dorchester and the somewhat distant railway station runs between terraces as it passes Furland Road on the left. On the left is the spire of [[1139064]].
©Derek Harper
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©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.2km<br/>Crewkerne fire station, Blacknell Lane, Crewkerne, Somerset.
©Kevin Hale
Dist:0.2km<br/>A terrace of cottages in the attractive local stone gently curves away from South Street. But at the end of the terrace the lane bends sharply to the right.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.2km<br/>An agency looks at the damage to the roots of the oak tree.
©Lewis Clarke
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©Sarah Smith
Dist:0.2km<br/>A church in the town of Crewkerne.
©Lewis Clarke
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©Lewis Clarke
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©Lewis Clarke

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