Yeovil

Yeovil, Somerset, sited in the valley of the River Yeo, has a population approaching 30,000. Traditionally a market town with two livestock markets serving a prosperous agricultural area, Yeovil is now a thriving industrial centre, where the three hundred year old craft of glove making sits alongside the manufacture of helicopters. The map below shows the features of the town of Yeovil as it was in the mid twentieth century. Click on a selected area of the map below to see an enlargement.