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Historical notes about the Town of Chard

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Chard and its old streets rang with clanking of armed men more than once in history. Carde was the Saxon name, presumable from Cerdic, and later it benefited by Bishop Joceline's gift of half his manor. In the Civil War it knew both King Charles and his doughty adversary General Fairfaz; and the luckless and foolish Monmouth marched through it on his way to the crown of England, a route along which he was not destined to travel far; and Judge Jeffreys came to the town after Monmouth has passed through, and the miserable fiasco on Sedgemoor had set the seal on his mad, presumptuous act. Like Yeovil, in a small way, Chard is commercially a coming town, with lace and collar factories. Antiquities are well represented in the church, with a short, stubby tower, and some admirable old houses, of which the Choughs Hotel is a particularly fine specimen.

It was the birthplace of Margaret Bondfield, the first woman Cabinet Minister, and of John Stringfellow who as long ago as 1848 invented and flew the first power-driven model aeroplane.

 

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