Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Chard. You may be able to find further references to Chard in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
CHARD	a town, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district	Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Chard.

Place	Type of entry	Source
CHARD (Crim)	a tything	Imperial
CHARD (Old)	a tything	Imperial
Chard, South	hamlet	Bartholomew
CHARD (South)	a tything	Imperial
Chilson	hamlet	Bartholomew
CHILSON	a hamlet	Imperial
Crimchard	hamlet	Bartholomew
Forton	hamlet	Bartholomew
FORTON	a tything	Imperial
PERRY-STREET	a hamlet	Imperial
Tatworth	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
TATWORTH	a chapelry	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Chard within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Exeter to London	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Chaffcombe	0	2
Tatworth	0	2
South Chard	0	3
Knowle St Giles	0	2
Wambrook	0	2
Combe St Nicholas	0	3
Cricket St Thomas	0	2
Cricket Malherbie	0	2
Chardstock	0	2
Winsham	0	2
Cudworth	0	2
Ford Abbey	0	2
Whitestaunton	0	4
Donyatt	0	2
West Dowlish	0	2
Dowlish Wake	0	2
Thorncombe	0	2
Ilminster	0	2
Chillington	0	2
Membury	0	2