Editing Axbridge (section)

==Status of settlement==

In contrast to the much larger settlement of [[Cheddar, Somerset|Cheddar]] immediately to the south east that remains a village, Axbridge is a town. This apparently illogical situation is explained by the relative importance of the two places in historic times. While Axbridge grew in importance as a centre for cloth manufacture in the [[Tudor dynasty|Tudor]] period and gained a charter from [[John of England|King John]], Cheddar remained a more dispersed dairy-farming village until the advent of tourism and the arrival of the railway in the [[Victorian era]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.strawberrylinetimes.co.uk/?page_id=203 | title=The Strawberry Line District and its communities | work=Strawberry Line Times| access-date=8 October 2012 |url-status = dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005070720/http://www.strawberrylinetimes.co.uk/?page_id=203 | archive-date=5 October 2012 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>