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Durotriges

Chardstock

A parish of Deven, Dorset, and Somerset.

Wednesday 2 August 2017, - 10.00 for 10.30am

We will meet up in the car park behind The George Inn in the centre of Chardstock the address of which is ‘Chardstock, Axminster, Devon EX13 7BX’, ST 310044.   I fell in step here with Ann West who was ‘on duty’ at the the time and will be very happy for us to leave our cars here from the time of our arrival and for us to hold our  ‘wash up’ sit-down meeting here afterwards – to stay open a little longer than usual. The George Inn is signposted from the A 358 Axminster-Chard road, turning west at Tytherleigh. 

From here we can take the public footpath north from the village school as far as Stockstyle and then east following the lane up onto the ridge which is crossed by the north/south course of the county boundary. It was during a recent reccy that I discovered that the prominent hilltop recorded along the boundary immediately east of Chardstock on the 1825 Greenwood map kindly forwarded to me by John Childs is not the site of the former episcopal beacon. This is/was located towards the south-western corner of the estate, but not named by Greenwood. Who did however, record its site by a small but distinctive symbol brought to my attention by an illustration in A History of the Parish of Chardstock – a monograph, a copy of which was on sale in the village shop. Beacon Hill is today accessed by a footpath leading up from a narrow lane above Fernham. There is a large yard here, permission to park our cars is from one Simon Duff – whose neighbour kindly gave me his phone number.

On arrival at The George Inn we can share thoughts as to how we might best organise the day given that the beacon is not sited along the boundary itself. But it will be interesting to find out as to why this particular hill was selected.

 

Our ‘wash up’ afterwards will let us all catch up with the news. It is a very ‘happening’ dcb period; this coming Wednesday, 19th, David Reid is kindly inviting members of SANHS to a meeting at the Pen Mill Hotel on the edge of Yeovil to share with them the dcb project (not least our recording methodology) and to turn thoughts to the day be held with them next year – over the border in Somerset. Progress is being made with our ‘listing’ of that length of the Up/Lyme Devon/Dorset boundary with the DCC Heritage Environment Record (almost certainly the first-ever length of a county boundary to be HER ‘registered’) and on Monday 24th July I shall be joining Luke Jenkins, Bournemouth University postgrad archaeologist to put a trial trench through a length of this distinctive boundary bank at the further end of Shire Lane also being the border of the episcopal estate granted to Sherborne at the end of the 7c. Full permission is given by Justin Bowles of Higher Knapps House whose garden is bounded by the bank on the Dorset side. Do please come and visit! Luke suggests that this exercise will almost certainly be completed by the end of the week. By the time of our field meeting on 2 August there will be something to report . . .

CHARDSTOCK 1886
Dorset Boundaries
Chardstock as at 1886 mapping.

 

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Dorset Parishes
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Devon Parishes
Frederic A. Youngs,Jr, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England,
Offices of the Historical Society, London, 1979
Extract maps (400m x 400m) from OS County Series 1st Edition 1:2500 mapping circa 1886 with digitised feature and boundary overlay. Sheet reference based on full easting-northing 100m grid reference to the lower left internal corner
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INDEX Chardstock - Chard from Brookhole to River Axe   Chardstock Chard, Somerset PDF
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674 1886
3316-1048 Brookhole Lane 3ft RH Chardstock Chard, Somerset PDF
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215 1886
3316-1044 Trig Point & Quarry 3ft RHChardstockChard, Somerset PDF
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183 1886
3317-1041 Storridge Hill & Breech Limekiln 3ft RHChardstockChard, Somerset PDF
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211 1886
3320-1038 Crosses turnpike at Crewkerne Corner 3ft RHChardstockChard, Somerset PDF
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214 1886
3321-1035 Crewkerne Corner and south 3ft RHChardstockChard, Somerset PDF
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224 1886
3323-1032 Chilson Farm (Chard) 3ft RHChardstockChard, Somerset PDF
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266 1886
3325-1029 Fields 3ft RHChardstockChard, Somerset PDF
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223 1886
3325-1026 To L&SWR Yeovil - Exeter rail line. River Axe 3ft RH, Def, CR Chardstock, ThorncombeChard, Somerset PDF
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- All of the above less index - Chardstock, Thorncombe Chard, Somerset PDF
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Other Maps
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- West Dorset -part of Greenwood 1825 map Chardstock, Wambrook, Stockland, Dalewood   PDF
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- Chardstock & Wambrook outline of Dorset Boundary extracted from 1886 mapping (as page) Chardstock, Wambrook, Thorncombe &Hawkchurch Axminster & Membury - Devon, Whitestaunton, Combe St Nicholas, Chard, PDF
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- Chardstock to West including the Beacon Hill spur - 1886 Chardstock   PDF
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- Chardstock to West including the Beacon Hill spur Chardstock   PDF
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Chardstock - Notes
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1672- PERAMBULATION OF THE PARISH

Eastern & Northern bounds

Chardstock Membury, Devon & Wambrook PDF
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ST ANDREWS Church, chardstock
Stalbridge Park wall
St Andrew's Church, Chardstock
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St Andrew's Church

The church has been part of village life since the 11th Century. The building you see today was almost completely rebuilt in 1864. The driving force behind the restoration of the church was The Reverend Charles Woodcock, who was the vicar of Chardstock between 1834 and 1875.

Axminster map 1806
Sherborne map 2in drawing

Axminster - 2in drawing, 1806

Two ancient earthworks are marked by concentric shapes and dark shading at Stockland Hill and Membury. A yellow pecked line indicates the boundary between Devon and Dorset.

The George Inn
Stalbridge Arms

The George Inn

Chris, Shelley, Daisy, Ann & John welcome you to The George Inn dedicated to ensuring that it an enviable reputation for good service, good food, good beer, quality accommodation and great hospitality.

Chard Street, Chardstock, NR Axminster, Devon, EX13 7BX