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Barrington Court Somerset

An atmospheric piece of old Somerset: an empty Tudor manor home, beautifully brought back in the 1920s, with farm buildings, abundant flowers and orchards.

There's a sense of liberty when you visit Barrington Court. The absence of a collection permits you the area and viewpoint to find the soul of this house, and feel the love and passion that went into its remediation.

Among the Court's most sensational functions is the long gallery. It runs the length of the attic floor, and in Tudor times would have offered an area for indoor workout. When Canon Rawnsley visited the house in 1907, he explained the long gallery as being 'loaded with holes, offering an excellent house for owls'.

Colonel Lyle brought back the walls utilising his extraordinary collection of panelling, and lots of pieces include fantastic examples of marquetry. Some of the most appealing seem to be half-hidden inlaid signs and indications. Look out for the skull and crossbones and the axeman's block, but there are much more to find.

The popular garden designer, Gertrude Jekyll, was spoken with by Colonel Lyle's other half, Elsie, on the design and best planting schemes for the garden. At the time, Jekyll was well into her seventies and almost blind, however she had the ability to recommend exactly what would grow best in the limy earth just by falling apart the soil, which was sent to her in biscuit tins. Elsie Lyle visited Jekyll to discuss the plans for the garden face to face, and much of exactly what you see today was influenced by these earlier plans.

Home grown
Typically the kitchen area garden was the larder of any nation home. Our kitchen area garden is a working gem, and it still fulfils its initial function of providing fresh fruit and veg for our dining establishment. There are huge pumpkins, curious decorative gourds, kale and cabbages, and with a little luck, some late raspberries.

The herbaceous borders that run down the orchard side of the kitchen garden are a riot of fall colour with the asters and michaelmas daisies looking particularly happy.

A home with a moat
Stopping briefly for a minute and looking into the moat can be very rewarding as you're most likely to spot plenty wildlife, from ducks to dragonflies. The moat needs routine raking to keep the water clear.

Rose and iris garden
A bridge leads you over the moat and through a carved and weathered oak door to the lovely walled garden The areas here are arranged as a series of linked specific garden 'rooms', each with its own theme or focus. The garden group is dividing up last of the irises at the minute - a job that is done every 4 years after they have actually ended up flowering.

Restoration of the rose beds happened throughout 2017 and they are now firmly established, with the wonderful flower display screens of Rosa 'Felicia', 'Cornelia' and' Penelope' (to call but a few) at their height previously in the summer. Autumn is when you'll see the group deep in the beds pruning everything.

Lily garden.
The biggest of the gardens and the first to be planted, the Lily Garden remains closest of all to Gertude's styles for Barrington Court, with planting that is rich and changing. Another task to keep the group busy over the coming weeks is lifting the dahlias so they can be saved over winter.

The pergola walk
The brick and wood pergola was designed by our existing head gardener, Christine Brain, along with Andrew Lyle in the 1980s. This charming feature covers the path from the busstalls to the White Garden, and there are lots of delightful, reputable climbing up plants growing over it.

Make sure to visit this amazing court in the heart of Somerset.

Barrington, 
Ilminster 
Somerset
TA19 0NQ
01460 241938
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Visit Chard Museum

The Story of Chard Museum

Chard's First Museum

Chard had its first 'museum' in 1880. Arthur Hull, a regional male, had actually developed a collection of 'interests' while working as a surveyor in the area and left them to Chard Town Council when he passed away.
His collection was placed on display in the City center but drew in little interest and started to deteriorate so it was handed over to Somerset County Museum in Taunton in 1917.
Chard and District Museum
The Arthur Hull collection remained there for the next fifty years until a newly-formed Chard History Group began to project for a museum in Chard to commemorate the story of the town.
The Town Council purchased a derelict 16th century structure in High Street, which had previously been four cottages, and provided the restored structure to a new 'Museum Council'. This building, now known as Godworthy House, was the very first home of Chard Museum

Godworthy House and the New Inn circa 1967
Much of the Arthur Hull collection was returned from Taunton and Chard and District Museum opened for the very first time on 20th July, 1970. The Museum grew rapidly and quickly had to expand.
Next door to the Museum a pub called the New Inn had closed and this too was purchased by the Town and leased to the Museum.
For many years farming machinery had actually been made in Chard and examples began to be added to the Museum's collections. By now show space was getting extremely restricted so a new open-sided structure, the 'Barn', was integrated in the late 1980s. This was soon confined to make a weatherproof screen area.
In 1994 the Town Council kindly provided the Museum using an open area behind the Barn and this field now consists of many other examples of locally made farming devices.

Chard Museum is a signed up charity (No. 270186) set up in 1970. It is handled by a group of Trustees who, like all the employees included with the Museum, are overdue volunteers.First signed up under the Museums and Galleries Registration Scheme in 1990, it was awarded complete Accreditation in April, 2006, among the first volunteer-run museums in the South West to receive this recognition.The Museum & Heritage Centre exhibits have actually been expanded and improved progressively throughout the years and consist of numerous collections of nationwide value consisting of those of John Stringfellow (1799-1883), an early pioneer of powered flight, and James Gillingham (1839-1924) who was an important maker of synthetic limbs.

Godworthy House,
High St,
Chard
TA20 1QB
01460 65091

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Forde Abbey

Forde Abbey is a well-known destination for friends and families, flower garden lovers and historiographers alike. Set throughout thirty acres of award-winning gardens, you'll find a little something of attraction all year round. To assist you make the most of your visit, we've featured a choice assortment of relevant information and links below. Nevertheless, if you have any particular inquiries, whether it's taking care of a large group or food catering for dedicated diets in our cafe, do please see the Contact Us page for information about how to get in touch, we'll be only too happy to help.

Please note, in summer the fountain is on three times daily, at: 12 noon, 1.30 pm and 3pm and will be on once a day throughout the Winter months at 12 noon.

Forde Abbey stands at the heart of a 1600 acre property. Even though small in comparison with many estate, it manages to feature a wide range of activities and does much to offer the best local fruit and vegetables to use in the house and the tearoom. The Kennard family are first and foremost stewards of the land that borders the Abbey and take their responsibility for it very seriously.

We have a wide range of events in the diary in addition to tourist attractions in the garden to make your visit a great day out for all the family. Walk in the footsteps of the monks and go back in time with a range of habits to try on in the house for all ages. Discover our giant-sized labyrinth in the arboretum and try your hand at pizza making with our brand-new wood fired oven.

Wide open lawns and the space and opportunity to explore makes Forde Abbey a fantastic day out for all the family. Adventurers will love our willow labyrinth in the arboretum, enjoying wildlife on the lake and don't forget to get a children's pack in the shop for tasks to do around the house and gardens. Take pleasure in lunch and home-baked treats in the tearoom and pick up pocket money gifts and mementos on sale in our gift shop.

There's considerable amounts of family friendly dates in the diary for 2018, including outdoor theatre, an Easter egg trail, forest fun sessions and much more aside from that. Have a look on our Events page for more info, follow us on Facebook, see what we get up to on Instagram and get monthly news and offers supplied to your inbox when you sign up to our newsletter on the homepage.

See the number of wild flowers you can pinpoint in our wildflower swirls that come to life over the Summer months-- interlocking circular swirls to follow, and woven with a mix of blooms much loved by the butterflies and bees.

How To Find Us

From the M5:
Leave the motorway at Junction 25 (Taunton) and take the A358 to Chard.

From the A303:
Leave the A303 at the turning for Crewkerne and join the A356. At Crewkerne take the A30 towards Chard.

From Exeter:
Take the A30 to Honiton and then the A35 to Axminster. In Axminster take the A358 towards Chard.

Forde Abbey is located 4 miles south east of Chard in Somerset. There are brown tourist signs for Forde Abbey from the A30, A358 and B3165. It is advised that you follow the brown tourist signs and not your satnav as you get close to Forde Abbey.

Forde Abbey Estate,
Chard
TA20 4LU
01460 220231
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Chard Guildhall

The Guildhall is a Quality II Listed Structure in the centre of the town that dates back to 1837 and also was formerly the Corn Exchange. It is located on the site of former courts and a market from the late 18th century. Much work has been carried out because this moment with major remodellings starting in 1998 and also being completed and resumed in 2003 with financial assistance from the Heritage Lottery Game Fund. The purpose of the redevelopment job was to make sure the structure has long-term sustainability as an area source in addition to handle this historical property in the most proper manner.

The Guildhall complex is made use of mainly as a neighborhood structure for a variety of tasks and in 2009 it became the long-term base for Chard Town Council. It is a crucial public structure as well as houses the Mayor's Parlour and also Town Council workplaces.

Chard is a historic market town situated within the remarkable countryside of South Somerset, near the Devon and Dorset boundaries.

Chard is the 2nd biggest town in South Somerset with a population of roughly 14,000. At 121 metres (397ft) above sea level it is both the southernmost and among the highest possible located communities in Somerset.

People have actually been staying in the Chard area considering that ancient times and also vacation homes nearby at Tatworth as well as Wadeford reveal that Romans lived below too, but the first created reference of the town remained in 1065 simply before the Norman intrusion. A little over twenty years later on the Doomsday Book recorded information of the settlement which was after that a huge, though not abundant, chateau.

In the middle of the 13th century the lord of the estate, the Diocesan of Wells, drew up a charter founding a new district of Chard. The site of the initial town, currently called Old Community, was near St Mary's Church but the brand-new district was created a little distance away on what is now the A30.

Like numerous communities in England, Chard ended up being carefully associated with the wool profession. The surge of the woollen trade in the north of England terribly impacted the market in Chard but in 1819 the manufacture of shoelace showed up. Soon there were mills in and around Chard producing bobbin shoelace net which was exported worldwide.

The sector proceeded throughout the rest of the 19th century as well as right into the center of the 20th century when the last mill in the town finally closed, although internet is still made in one of the close-by villages. A prospering engineering industry matured along with the lace mills and also several of the companies which established from this are still running in Chard today.

You could discover extra concerning our town's background in Chard Museum located in Godworthy Home, High Street Chard or by seeing the Local Information Centre at The Guildhall.

Chard is easily accessible, located on the primary London-- Exeter path, so why not stop off at one of the Cafes, Pubs or Restaurants, employ and go to the Antiques, Vintage, Collectables & Craft Market or loosen up by Chard Reservoir-- just a few of the things Chard needs to use.

The Guildhall
Fore Street,
Chard,
Somerset
TA20 1PP,
01460 260051
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Chard Taxi Service

Pinewood Cars
flat 1
74 Holyrood Street
Chard
TA20 2AL
01460455565

Pinewood Cars is a private Taxi & Private Hire company started in November 2015, with the aim of providing a first class service to all of its customers. Running in Chard (TA20) and Ilminster (TA19), we pride ourselves on never letting clients down and aim to be available for booking 24 hours a day/7 days a week. We are available for anything and everything! From airport transfers to your weekly shopping trips and doctor visits, we can cover it all.
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Chard Town Post

About Chard Somerset

About Chard in Somerset

The LSWR's station (later known as Chard Town) opened in 1860 with a single platform, and the B&ER's (variously known as Chard Joint or Chard Central) in 1866. For five years LSWR trains continued to call at Chard Town and then reversed to the connecting line and then resumed their forward trip to the Joint station. In 1871 a new platform was opened on the connecting line; this closed to passengers on 1 January 1917 but the town station was the main goods depot for the town until it finally closed on 18 April 1966. Passenger trains ceased to work to Chard Central on 11 September 1962, and private goods traffic on 3 October 1966. The station building and train shed still stand and are in use by engineering companies.

From 1842 Chard was the terminus of the Chard Canal, a tub boat canal that joined the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal at Creech St. Michael. It had four aqueducts, three tunnels and four inclined planes along its 13.5-mile (21.7 km) length. It took seven years to construct and cost about £ 140,000 (£ 12.1 million in 2016).

There are also caves in Chard, first reported in a charter of 1235 as being used by stonemasons, which provided regional building stone. The cave is more compact than when it was used as a quarry as part of the roof covering has fallen in but a cave 20 feet (6.1 m) underground still prevails with the leftovers of the supporting pillars left when it was being worked.

A 1663 will by Richard Harvey of Exeter established Almshouses which became Harvey's Hospital. These were rebuilt in 1870 largely of stone from previous building. The subsequent hangings happed where the Tesco roundabout now stands, the original tree being removed by railway in 1864.

There was a fulling mill in the town by 1394 for the textile industry. After 1820 this expanded with the town becoming a centre for lace manufacture led by manufacturers who fled from the Luddite resistance they had faced in the English Midlands. Bowden's Old Lace Factory and the Gifford Fox factory are examples of the sites constructed. The Guildhall was built as a Corn Exchange and Guildhall in 1834 and is now the Town Hall.

On Snowdon Hill is a small cottage which was originally a toll house built by the Chard Turnpike trust in the 1830s, to collect fees from those using a road up the hill which avoided the steep gradient.

Fore Street.

Chard claims to remain the birthplace of powered flight, as it was here in 1848 that the Victorian aerial innovator John Stringfellow (1799-- 1883) first demonstrated that engine-powered flight was possible through his work on the Aerial Steam Carriage. James Gillingham (1839-- 1924) from Chard pioneered the development of articulated artificial legs when he produced a prosthesis for a man who lost his arm in a cannon accident in 1863. Chard Museum has a display of Gillingham's work. 

Chard was a key point on the Taunton Stop Line, a World War II defensive line comprising of pillboxes and anti-tank obstacles, which runs from Axminster north to the Somerset coast near Highbridge. In 1938 a bomb proof bunker was built behind the branch of the Westminster Bank. During the war it was used to hold duplicate copies of the bank records in the event that its headquarters in London was destroyed. It was also used to store the emergency bank note supply of the Bank of England. There has also been speculation that the Crown Jewels were also stored there, however this has never been confirmed.

The town's public transport links to Taunton are now supplied by First Group's Buses of Somerset. Two routes serve the town. Route 30 and route 99, which both run hourly during weekdays.

Chard's name was Cerden in 1065 and Cerdre in the Domesday Book of 1086 and it means "house on the chart or challenging ground" (Old English: ceart + renn). Before the Norman Conquest Chard was held by the Bishop of Wells. The town's first charter was from King John and another from the bishop in 1234, which delimited the town and laid out burgage holdings in 1-acre (4,000 m2) lots at a rent of twelve pence per year. The parish of Chard belonged to the Kingsbury Hundred,

The majority of the town was destroyed by fire in 1577. Then time the town was largely rebuilt including Waterloo House and Manor Court House in Fore Street which were built as a house and courtroom, and have now been exchanged shops and offices. Further damage to the town occurred during the English Civil War with both sides plundering its resources, particularly in 1644 when Charles I spent a week in the town.

In the 1860s the town became the terminus of two railway lines. The first was opened in 1863 by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) as a small branch line from their main line. This approached the town from the south. The second and longer line was opened by the Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER) in 1866 and ran northwards, close to the route of the canal, to join their main line near Taunton. From 1917 they were both operated by one company, but services were mostly advertised as though it was nonetheless two separate lines. [41] It was closed to travelers in 1962 and freight traffic was withdrawn a few years later.

The 36.97 hectares (91.4 acres) Chard Reservoir, around a kilometer northeast of the town, is a Local Nature Reserve. It is used for dog walks, sport fishing and birdwatching, with a bird hide having been set up. Variety which are spotted frequently consist of herons, kingfishers, cormorants, grebes, ducks and also a broad range of forest songbirds. Others include the great white egret, cattle egret, and spotted redshank.

Snowdon Hill Quarry is a 0.6 hectare (1.3 acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the western outskirts. The place shows rock exposures through the Upper Greensand and Chalk, containing fossil crustaceans which are both unique and exceptionally well-preserved turning it into a key locality for the study of palaeontology in Britain. The unit has been dated to the subdivision of the Chalk known as the Turrilites acutus Zone, named after one of the characteristic fossils, [31] which was laid down in the Middle Cenomanian era between 99.6 ± 0.9 MA and 93.5 ± 0.8 MA (million years ago).

At an altitude of 121 metres (397 ft), Chard is just one of the highest locations in Somerset, and is also the most southern. The suburbs include: Crimchard, Furnham, Glynswood, Henson Park and Old Town. Local folklore believes that the town has a very unusual and one-of-a-kind feature, a stream going either side of Fore Street One stream sooner or later flows into the Bristol Channel and the other makes it to the English Channel. This scenario changed when the dependent of the Axe was redirected into the Isle; the gutter in Holyrood Street, though, still flows into the River Axe and as a result it is still true it lies on the watershed and that two gutters within the down ultimately drain into the Bristol Channel and the English Channel.