Chard Museum
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Overview
Chard Museum and Heritage Centre celebrates Chard's varied history including displays on John Stringfellow, pioneer of powered flight, James Gillingham, inventor of moulded leather artificial limbs and Margaret Bondfield, the UK's first woman cabinet minister. Other buildings on the museum site contain many examples of Dening agricultural machinery, distributed all over the world.
Features
- Opening Times
- Opening Times: Open 30 Mar-Oct, Mon-Fri 10-4, Sat 10-1
- Facilities
- Parking nearby
- Children
- Suitable for children of all ages
About the area
Somerset remains rural and unspoiled, and ever popular areas to visit are the limestone and red sandstone Mendip Hills rising to over 1,000 feet, and by complete contrast, to the south and southwest, the flat landscape of the Somerset Levels. Another popular spot, the Quantocks, once the haunt of poets Coleridge and Wordsworth, are noted for their gentle slopes, heather-covered moorland expanses and red deer.
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Self-Catering
Beaverbrook 20 and Churchill 20
- Total units: 2
- Private garden
- Lawn area
- Garden furniture
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