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Axminster is a market town and civil parish on the eastern border of the county of Devon in England. It is 28 miles (45 km) from the county town of Exeter.The town is built on a hill overlooking the River Axe which heads towards the English Channel at Axmouth, and is in the East Devon local government district.
Axminster railway station. / 50.779; -3.005. Axminster railway station serves the town of Axminster in Devon, England. It is operated by South Western Railway and is situated on the West of England Main Line. It is 144 miles 41 chains (232.6 km) down the line from London Waterloo .
St Mary's Church, Axminster. / 50.7816; -2.9993. St Mary's Church is a Church of England church in Axminster, Devon, England. [ 1] The church has Norman origins, although much of the building dates from the 13th–15th centuries. [ 2] St Mary's is Axminster's parish church and the oldest building in the town. [ 3]
Weycroft Mill in 2009, the site of the ancient manorial mill. Weycroft (anciently Wigoft, [1] Wicroft, etc.) is an historic manor in the parish of Axminster in Devon, England. The surviving manor house known as "Weycroft Hall" is a Grade I listed building which includes elements from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, with a great hall of circa ...
Newenham Abbey. Coordinates: 50.7750°N 3.0000°W. Newenham Abbey ( alias Newnham) was a Cistercian abbey founded in 1247 by Reginald II de Mohun (1206–1258) on land within his manor of Axminster in Devon, England. The site of the ruined abbey is a short distance south-west of the town of Axminster.
Today, Axminster Carpets is the only manufacturer to purchase, wash, card, spin and dye its own yarn before weaving the carpet itself. [7] To celebrate 250 years of carpet weaving in Axminster, in 2005 a commemorative rug was produced. Paraded by the company's weavers through the town, it was then blessed by the Bishop of Exeter and presented ...
Axminster Guildhall. / 50.7814; -3.0010. Axminster Guildhall is a municipal building in West Street in Axminster, a town in Devon, in England. The building, which is meeting place of Axminster Town Council, is also used as a community events venue.
Arms of Bonville: Sable, six mullets argent pierced gules [2] Cecily Bonville was born on or about 30 June 1460 [3] at Shute Manor in Shute near Axminster, Devon, England.She was the only child and heiress of William Bonville, 6th Baron Harington of Aldingham and Lady Katherine Neville, a younger sister of the military commander Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick known to history as ...
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