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Yeovil (/ ˈ j oʊ v ɪ l /) [2] is a town and civil parish in Somerset, England.The population of Yeovil at the last census (2021) was 49,698. It is close to Somerset's southern border with Dorset, 126 miles (203 km) west of London, 41.8 miles (67.3 km) south of Bristol, 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Sherborne and 27.6 miles (44.4 km) east of Taunton.
The station was designed by William Tite and was opened by the LSWR on 19 July 1860, along with its Exeter Extension from Yeovil Junction to Exeter Queen Street. It was named Feniton after the nearest village, but less than a year later it was renamed (on 1 July 1861) as Ottery and Sidmouth Road .
English: Market Street, Yeovil Looking back along Market Street towards St John's Church and the bottom of Silver Street. The Pall Tavern is on the left and the old cattle market runs above on the right hand side out of sight.
The Yeovil station was on the west side of the town, at Hendford, in the angle between Hendford Hill and the present-day Lysander Way. The station is often described as being on the "outskirts" of Yeovil. The distance from there to Yeovil High Street was about 500 m (550 yd). [4]
The BA postcode area, also known as the Bath postcode area, [2] is a group of nineteen postcode districts in South West England, within sixteen post towns.These cover east Somerset (including Bath, Yeovil, Bruton, Castle Cary, Frome, Glastonbury, Radstock, Shepton Mallet, Street, Templecombe, Wells and Wincanton) and west Wiltshire (including Bradford on Avon, Trowbridge, Warminster and ...
The church of St Michael in East Coker dates from the 12th century and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building. [20] The church is the final resting place of the ashes of T. S. Eliot , whose ancestors came from the village.
The road is entirely single carriageway, except in the Yeovil and Bristol built-up areas, at Ilchester (where it multiplexes with the A303), and north of Dorchester. The road is one of the main routes connecting Bristol to the county of Dorset and is also a popular non-motorway route from Bristol to Exeter and Cornwall via the A303.
Yeovil Pen Mill is one of two railway stations that serve the town of Yeovil, Somerset, England.It is situated just under a mile to the east of the town centre. The station is located 59.5 miles (96 km) south of Bristol Temple Meads, on the Heart of Wessex Line.