These are personal of the FA Cup giant killing team Yeovil Town F.C. Famous as a glove making town during the industrial revolution, its football team retain the nickname, The Glovers.

A town's independent employer is Westland Helicopters, the projected low of which to the U.s. Sikorski Fiat class action inside January 1986 led to the crisis in the so Thatcher government, and a resignation of Michael Heseltine as Defence Secretary. A political fallout continued Ii weeks late sustaining a resignation of the so Trade & Industry Secretary Leon Brittan after his admission of leaking of a governmental lawman's letter which harshly criticised Mr Heseltine.

Outlying villages include East Coker, the burial place of the poet T.S. Eliot, Sutton Bingham, Stoford, Evershot, Halstock and Yetminster, the home of folk band The Yetties. More nearby villages include Bradford Abbas, Corscombe, the previous personal of singer Polly Jean Harvey, and Pendomer, where William Dampier (1651-1715) the controversial English explorer, skipper, & scientific observer was born. Previous England cricketer Ian Botham comes from Yeovil itself.

Transport Links

A town has ii railroad station; Yeovil Pen Mill serving the Bristol-Weymouth line, and Yeovil Junction on the London-Exeter line.

Etymology

A title "Yeovil" comes via Anglo-Saxon from a corruption of the Celtic gifl, meaning "forked river".

History

Archeologic studies develop indicated signs of activity from either a paleolithic time, by owning burial & occupation web sites placed mainly south of the modern town. Land south of Yeovil is as well the possibility as a places for the Battle of Peonnum, although there has been no conclusive grounds to believe for this.

Strategically significant, a town & circumferent areas too betray traces of Roman class action settlement.

1st recorded in the Domesday Book as the town of Givle, it features as the thriving market community, sustaining a people of c. G. Inside 1205 it was granted the charter by King John. Per 14th century, the town got gained the right to elect a portreeve. A Black Death exacted a heavily toll, killing or so half a people. Around 1499 the major fire broke call at the town, destroying numbers of of the wooden, thatched roofed buildings. Yeovil suffered farther good fires, inside 1620 and agawithin in 1643.

Per period of the 1801 Census, the people of Yeovil was all about 2,800. It grew apace in the 19th century & experienced the people of 11,000 by 1900.