20 Facts About Wells Somerset

Wells Somerset takes its name from three wells dedicated to Saint Andrew, one in the market place and two within the grounds of the Bishop's Palace and cathedral.

The community became a trading centre based on cloth making and Wells Somerset is notable for its 17th-century involvement in both the English Civil War and the Monmouth Rebellion.

Wells Somerset had been a centre for cloth making; however, in the 16th and 17th centuries this diminished, but the city retained its important market focus.

Wells Somerset was part of, and gave its name to, the hundred of Wells Somerset Forum.

Wells Somerset had been granted charters to hold markets by Bishop Robert and free burgage tenure was granted by Bishop Reginald.

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Wells Somerset was recognised as a free borough by a Royal charter of King John in 1201.

Wells Somerset was entertained by a pageant performed by the town's trades and crafts.

In 1878, when through trains began running between Yatton and Witham, the East Wells Somerset station closed, but through trains did not stop at Priory Road until 1934.

Wells Somerset City Council is a parish council, with a membership of sixteen councillors, elected from three parish wards.

Wells Somerset is the successor parish for Wells Somerset Municipal Borough, which existed from the creation of municipal boroughs in 1835 to their abolition in 1974.

Civil parish of Wells Somerset is entirely surrounded by the parish of St Cuthbert Out.

Wells Somerset is part of the Wells Somerset and Shepton Mallet travel to work area which includes Glastonbury, Cheddar and surrounding areas.

Wells Somerset is situated at the junction of three numbered routes.

Wells Somerset is served by First West of England bus services to Bristol and Bristol Temple Meads station, Bath, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Yeovil, Street and Weston-super-Mare, as well as providing some local service.

Wells Somerset Cathedral School, founded in 909, is an independent school that has a Christian emphasis and is one of the five established musical schools for school-age children in Britain.

The primary schools in Wells Somerset are Stoberry Park School, St Cuthbert's Church of England Infants School, St Cuthbert's Church of England Junior School and St Joseph and St Teresa Catholic Primary School.

Polychromatic stone Church of St Thomas was built during 1856 and 1857 and extended by Samuel Sanders Teulon in 1864, commemorating the work of Richard Jenkyns the Dean of Wells Somerset who had cared for the poor in the east of the city.

Wells Somerset Vineyard Church is an Evangelical Church formed in 2003.

Wells Somerset has been an ecclesiastical city of importance since at least the early 8th century.

Wells Somerset has been used as the setting for several films including: The Canterbury Tales, A Fistful of Fingers, The Gathering, The Libertine, The Golden Age, and Hot Fuzz.