Yeovilton Yeovilton Yeovilton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated east of Ilchester, north of Yeovil, in the South Somerset district. The village has a population of 1,226. The parish includes the village of Podimore (also known as or Puddimore or Milton Podimore) and the hamlets of Speckington and Bridgehampton. The village is home to the RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron) and the associated Fleet Air Arm Museum. Yeovilton is close to the route of the Fosse Way a Roman road that linked Exeter ("Isca Dumnoniorum") in South West England to Lincoln ("Lindum Colonia") in the East Midlands, via
Isca Dumnoniorum the line between the Isca fortress and Topsham was excavated at the site on Topsham Road in 2010. Initial dating suggests that it was occupied at the same time as the Isca fortress, –75. The settlement () of Isca Dumnoniorum seems to have developed around the Roman fortress. It is one of the four cities () attributed to the Dumnonii by Claudius Ptolemy in his 2nd-century "Geography" and it served as the tribal capital () of the Dumnonii. It was also listed on the late-2nd century Antonine Itinerary, where it forms the southern terminus of route 15 () on the