Axminster

Axminster is a marketplace city and civil parish on the eastern border of the county of Devon in England, some 28 miles from the county town of Exeter. The metropolis is constructed on a hill overlooking the River Axe which heads in the direction of the English Channel at Axmouth, and is inside the East Devon nearby authorities district. At the 2001 census, it had a populace of 5,626, growing to 5,761 on the 2011 census. The town contains electoral wards the whole sum of both wards being a population of 7,110. The marketplace continues to be held each Thursday.

Axminster gave its call to a type of carpet. An Axminster-type strength loom is able to weaving high pleasant carpets with many ranging colorings and styles. While Axminster carpets are made in the metropolis via Axminster Carpets Ltd, this type of carpet is now synthetic all around the international. The town dates returned to the Celtic times of round 300 BC. It lies on primary Roman roads: the Fosse Way from Lincoln to Seaton, and the Dorchester to Exeter avenue. There changed into a Roman castle on the crossroads at Woodbury Farm, simply south of the present city. Axminster seems at the Peutinger Map, certainly one of most effective 15 British cities on that Roman era map.