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Axminster railway station was opened on 19 July 1860, with the London and South Western Railway ( LSWR ) offering direct services between Queen Street Station in Exeter and Yeovil.
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Axminster railway station is on the West of England Main Line that runs from Exeter via Salisbury to London Waterloo.
The Taunton Stop Line ran north-south for nearly through Somerset, Dorset and Devon, roughly from Axminster to Chard along the River Axe, then along the Great Western Railway to Ilminster, the railway and Chard Canal to Taunton, the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal to Bridgwater, and the River Parrett to the coast near Highbridge.
The nearest railway stations to Bridport now are at Maiden Newton, Crewkerne, Dorchester or Axminster.
There is an infrequent bus service to Maiden Newton ( 71 ) and a bus service linking Axminster station, Dorchester South and West stations, and Weymouth railway stations ( 31 ) and a bus service linking the majority of Exeter railway stations, and Weymouth, Wool, Wareham, Poole, and formerly Bournemouth railway stations ( X53 )
Axminster railway station serves the town of Axminster in Devon, England.
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Axminster station
There are regular buses to Weymouth and Axminster every hour weekdays, and the X53 Exeter-Poole coastal service stops at the main bus station every two hours most weekdays with some extra services during the school summer holidays.
Axminster station viewed from the north
A train to London Waterloo station | London Waterloo arriving at Axminster on the down line
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One of the finishing touches was in June 1791, when a large Axminster carpet was installed in the Senate's upper-floor chamber.
The carpet was 22 by 40 feet, and was made by William Peter Sprague, an Englishman from Axminster ( probably trained under Thomas Whitty ) who had set up a factory in Philadelphia.
Axminster was recorded in the late 9th century as Ascanmynster and in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Aixeministra.
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.
In 1903, the branch line from Axminster to Lyme Regis was opened.
The crossroads in Axminster was controlled by a Roman fort at Woodbury Farm, now on the southern edge of the town.
From 1842 to 1848 he was principal of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution ( later Liverpool College ), which he left for the vicarage of Axminster.
Axminter carpet was a unique floor covering made originally in a factory founded at Axminster, Devon, England, in 1755 by the cloth weaver Thomas Whitty.
* Ulster Carpets Ltd were established in the town in 1938 and was the major employer through most of the 1950s to the 1980s producing woolen Axminster.
Buckland was born at Axminster in Devon and, as a child, would accompany his father, the Rector of Templeton and Trusham, on his walks where interest in road improvements led to collecting fossil shells, including ammonites, from the Jurassic lias rocks exposed in local quarries.
Chard was a key point on the Taunton Stop Line, a World War II defensive line consisting of pillboxes and anti-tank obstacles, which runs from Axminster north to the Somerset coast near Highbridge.
After the initial campaigns, a more permanent Roman camp was established at nearby Ilchester, and the Fosse Way military road was constructed within of Ham Hill, on its way to Axminster and the garrison at Exeter.
His contribution to the season was Hugh's Chicken Run, shown over three consecutive nights, in which he created three chicken farms in Axminster ( one intensive, one commercial free range, and a community farm project staffed by volunteers ), culminating in a " Chicken Out!
Another Fearnley-Whittingstall project was the conversion of an old inn in Axminster to an organic produce shop and canteen which opened in September 2007.
In 1836 the parish which had been part of the Axminster Hundred in the Deanery of Honiton, was transferred ecclesiastically from the Diocese of Exeter to the Diocese of Salisbury.
He was rector of Sully in Glamorganshire from 1823 to 1836, and vicar of Axminster from 1836 to 1844.
He wrote also on the valley of the Thames, on Elie de Beaumont's theory of mountain-chains, and on the great landslip which occurred near Lyme Regis in 1839 when he was vicar of Axminster.
In December 2009 a new loop was installed at Axminster to break up the section towards Chard.
Services for many years featured both express trains between London Waterloo and Devon and Cornwall as well as local services between Salisbury or Yeovil and Exeter, but in 1903 Axminster became a junction when the Lyme Regis branch line was opened.
On 11 June 1967 the main line was rationalised – Axminster was now in the middle of a single track section between Chard Junction and Honiton.
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The River Cottage team has opened a Canteen and Deli in Axminster, a local produce shop and informal restaurant.
The platforms were lengthened in the 1930s to accommodate longer trains and a factory making Axminster carpets opened alongside the goods yard in 1937.
On 11 December 2009 a new loop was opened with Axminster at its centre.
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Axminster is a market town and civil parish on the eastern border of the county of Devon in England, some from the county town of Exeter.
Then it turns on to the B3167 through the hamlets of Street and Perry Street, joins the A358, crosses the River Axe at what used to be called Stratford ( now called Weycroft ), and on to Axminster.
There are further alignments on the A358 at Ball's Farm and Musbury south of Axminster, which imply a Roman road did continue along the River Axe toward Axmouth and Seaton.
In one notable and lengthy land rights case, ' The Queen v. Ames ', Hayward acted on behalf of the town of Lyme Regis in securing the permanent right of way for its citizens, across the cliffs to Axminster.
Many of the militiamen deserted and joined Monmouth's army, before he fought another skirmish on the 15th at Axminster.
Neoclassical designer Robert Adam supplied designs for both Moorfields and Axminster carpets based on Roman floor mosaics and coffered ceilings.
Resembling somewhat the Savonnerie carpets produced in France, Axminster carpets were symmetrically knotted by hand in wool on woolen warps and had a weft of flax or hemp.
It has no bus service but the No. 31 Weymouth to Axminster bus and the X53 Poole to Exeter bus stop on West Road for Symondsbury at Sprakes Corner, half a mile ( 800 metres ) away.
This necessitated a trial relocation to the smokebox door at the three and nine o ' clock positions on No. 21C109 Lyme Regis, and fitted as standard from No. 21C118 Axminster onwards.
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