Chard and District Museum is a Community Museum which focuses on the rich history of the Chard area.
Chard and District Museum is in a building which itself dates from as early as the 16th century. It was formerly a public house.
One of the Museum's most important displays is on John Stringfellow, a pioneer of powered flight who flew a steam-powered ten foot wingspan aircraft in a disused lace mill in Chard in 1848. The museum has replicas of this plane and others designed by him and his partner, William Henson.
Another local pioneer remembered in the Museum is James Gillingham whose company made artificial limbs in Chard from the 1860s right up until 1950.
Other displays show rural crafts (blacksmith, wheelwright and cooper), domestic life, costumes and local industries which include the making of agricultural machinery and plain net.
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Chard and District Museum