Chard and Ilminster News

Chard & Ilminster NewsType| Weekly newspaper

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Owner(s)| Newsquest
Founded| 1874
Circulation| 1,461 (as of 2023)[1]
Website| chardandilminsternews.co.uk

The Chard and Ilminster News is a local newspaper in Somerset, England.

## History[edit]

The newspaper was established in Chard, Somerset, about 1874, as a weekly newspaper published on Saturdays, priced at one penny,[2] [3] and in 1882 was identified as Liberal-supporting, with a circulation of one thousand copies. It was then in competition with the longer-established Nowlen's Weekly Chronicle, Chard, Ilminster, and Axminster Gazette, which was Conservative and was selling 850 copies at a higher price.[4]

## Present day[edit]

The newspaper continues to be published weekly in Chard and covers the local news, events, jobs, births, deaths and marriages of Chard, Ilminster, Crewkerne, and the villages of South Somerset.[5]

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ "Chard & Ilminster News". Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK). 21 February 2024. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
2. ^ Sir John Richard Somers Vine, The County Companion, Diary, Statistical Chronicle (1883), p. 242: "Chard and Ilminster News, Saturday. 1d. L. 1874. T. Young , Chard"
3. ^ The Official Guide to the London and South Western Railway (Cassell and Company, 1894), p. 113
4. ^ Hubbard's Newspaper and Bank Directory of the World (1882), p. 1,587
5. ^ Main page, Chard and Ilminster News, accessed 21 February 2021

## External links[edit]

* Chard and Ilminster News, web site

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