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The Town Hall (with the clock tower) c.1913 The Municipal Offices (on the right) The first municipal building in Yeovil was the "Tolle Hall" in The Borough, which was used as a courthouse and a lock up for petty criminals and dated back at least to the early 17th century. [2]
The Wills Memorial Geology Library Wills Memorial Building, front face Great George in the tower of the Wills Memorial Building Wills Memorial Building interior. The Wills Memorial Building was commissioned in 1912 by George Alfred Wills and Henry Herbert Wills, the magnates of the Bristol tobacco company W. D. & H. O. Wills, in honour of their father, Henry Overton Wills III, benefactor and ...
Entrance front c. 1868. Brympton d'Evercy (alternatively Brympton House) is a Grade I listed manor house near Yeovil in the county of Somerset, England. [1] The house has been called the most beautiful of its kind in England; in 1927, Christopher Hussey, near the start of a 50-year career as an architectural authority, termed it "the one which created the greatest impression and summarises so ...
The battle of Babylon Hill was an indecisive skirmish that took place between Royalist and Parliamentarian forces near Yeovil, in South West England, on 7 September 1642, during the early stages of the First English Civil War.
Montacute is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Yeovil.The village has a population of 831 (2011 census). [1] The name Montacute is thought by some to derive from the Latin "Mons Acutus", referring to the conically acute St Michael's Hill dominating the village to the west.
Willis secured the naming rights effective July 2009 as part of its agreement to lease 140,000 square feet (13,000 m 2) of space in the 3,800,000-square-foot (350,000 m 2) tower. [14] It is the tallest building in the U.S. and was the tallest building in the world from 1974 until 1998, when it was surpassed by the Petronas Towers in Kuala ...
Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, commonly referred to as RNAS Yeovilton, (IATA: YEO, ICAO: EGDY) (HMS Heron) is an airbase of the Royal Navy, sited a few miles north of Yeovil, in the English county of Somerset. It is one of two active Fleet Air Arm bases, the other being RNAS Culdrose.