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The Trafalgar way
 Axminster
was on the route of The
Trafalgar Way which
is the name given to the historic route used to carry
dispatches with the news of the Battle
of Trafalgar overland
from Falmouth,
Cornwall to
the Admiralty in London in 1805 and there is a plaque
commemorating this fact in the town centre.wikipedia HERE  |
more about Axminster
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Carpets Axminster is the southern starting point of the Taunton Stop Line, a World War II defensive line consisting of pillboxes and anti-tank obstacles, which runs north to the Somerset coast nearHighbridge. Nearby Kilmington was used as a location for the 1998 LWT adaptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles. The celebrity chef and TV presenter Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has his River Cottage H.Q. at a 60-acre (240,000 m2) farm in the Axe valley. He has since purchased an old inn that once provided the ballroom of the town, now converted to an organic produce shop/market and canteen. Wikipedia HERE |
