Yeovil
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Template:GBmap Yeovil is a town in south Somerset, England, on the A30 and A37. It has a population of about 30,000, and is the old constituency of Paddy Ashdown. It is home of the FA cup giant killing team Yeovil Town FC. Famous as a glove making town in the industrial revolution, its football team retain the nickname The Glovers still today. The town's main employer is Westland Helicopters.
The town is in the Yeovil parliamentary constituency.
The town has two train stations; Yeovil Pen Mill serving the Bristol-Weymouth line, and Yeovil Junction on the London-Exeter line.
Outlying villages include East Coker, the burial place of the poet T.S. Eliot, Sutton Bingham, Stoford, Evershot, Halstock and Yetminster, the home of folk band The Yetties. Other nearby villages include Bradford Abbas, Corscombe, the former home of singer Polly Jean Harvey, and Pendomer, where William Dampier (1651-1715) the controversial English explorer, sea captain, and scientific observer was born.
The name "Yeovil" comes via Anglo-Saxon from Celtic gifl, which means "forked river".