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Market town in Somerset, SW England;
population (1991) 8,500. Industries include
printing and the manufacture of animal
foodstuffs. The cathedral, built near the
site of a Saxon church in the 12th and 13th
centuries, has a west front with 386 carved
figures. Wells was made the seat of a
bishopric about 900 (Bath and Wells from
1244) and has a bishop's palace.