Chard, Somerset

The town of Chard, in Somerset, is a fine town: a large, well-designed town with some excellent classical buildings; an industrious town, with a few old mills; an interesting town, hidden away in the southern part of the Blackdown Hills, with two streams in the high street, one flowing south to the English Channel and the other north to the Bristol Channel. However, it is also an abandoned town, both the canal and the railway long-since vanished. All it has left now is the original A30, that famous old trunk road that ran through this place




The history of the Chard-Taunton canal:
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