Chard and Ilminster News
The Chard and Ilminster News is a long-established local newspaper in Somerset, England.
History[]
The newspaper was established in Chard, Somerset, about 1874, as a weekly newspaper published on Saturdays, priced at one penny,[1] [2] 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.[3]
Present day[]
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.[4]
Notes[]
- ^ 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"
- ^ The Official Guide to the London and South Western Railway (Cassell and Company, 1894), p. 113
- ^ Hubbard's Newspaper and Bank Directory of the World (1882), p. 1,587
- ^ Main page, Chard and Ilminster News, accessed 21 February 2021
External links[]
- Chard and Ilminster News, web site
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