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Somerton is a community as well as civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It gave its name to the region and also was briefly, around the start of the 14th century, the county town, and around 900 was perhaps the resources of Wessex. It has actually held a regular market since the Middle Ages, and the main square with its market cross is today an appealing location for visitors. Positioned on the River Cary, about 8.8 miles (14.2 km) north-west of Yeovil, Somerton has its own community council serving a population of 4,697 since 2011. Homeowners are often referred to locally as Somertonians. The civil parish includes the districts of Etsome, Hurcot, Catsgore, and also Catcombe. The background of Somerton dates back to the Anglo-Saxon age, when it was an essential political and commercial centre. After the Norman occupation of England the value of the community declined, despite being the county town of Somerset in the late thirteenth century and also early fourteenth century. Having shed county town status, Somerton after that became a market town in the Middle Ages, whose economic situation was supported by transport systems using the River Parrett, and later on rail transport via the Great Western Railway, and also by light industries consisting of handwear cover making as well as gypsum mining. In the centre of Somerton the broad market square, with its octagonal roofed market cross, is bordered by old houses, while close by is the 13th century Church of St Michael and All Angels. Somerton additionally had links with Muchelney Abbey in the Middle Ages. The BBC drama The Monocled Mutineer was filmed in Somerton from 1985 to 1986.