The parish of Chardstock was transferred to Devon from Dorset in 1896. 
Wambrook, formerly a chapelry of Chardstock, was transferred from Dorset to Somerset in the same year.
Chardstock All Saints was created from lands formerly in the parishes 
of  Chardstock and Axminster and became a chapelry in 1867.

Resources    Lay Sudsidy Rolls 1332   1525   1545   1594 Muster Rolls 1539   1569 Chardstock Churchwardens 1596-1989 Hearth Tax  1662-64 Chardstock men in the Monmouth Rebellion  1685 Chardstock Baptisms  1579-1879 All Saints Baptisms 1847-1879 Chardstock Marriages  1579-1837 Chardstock Burials  1674-1901 Monumental Inscriptions Chardstock St Andrew's churchyard  over 300 headstones Church Rate (Taxation) Lists  1798-1800   1834   1837   1847 White's Charity Distributions to the poor of Chardstock  1808   1827   1875 Dorset Poll Book  1807 Calendar of Dorset Wills & Admons in the Prebendal Court Chardstock (including Wambrook)  1693-1799 Index Wills & Admons from other sources Index Apprenticeship Indentures  1695-1801 Index Settlement Papers 1698-1830 Index Removal Orders 1696-1821 Index Bastardry Papers 1718-1830 Census  1841  1851  1861  1871  1881  1891  1901 Trade Directory Entries 1851  1859  1865  1875  1880  1895  1897  1902  1914  1919  1923  1926  1935 Honour Roll : Chardstock men who fell in war  1914-18  1939-45 Index staff & pupils at Chardstock schools Index Chardstock lease &  land holders from various sources Index misc references to Chardstock folk from various  sources A History of  the Parish of Chardstock   (PJ Wood & RW Carter 1999) A Short History of the Church of St Andrew in Chardstock   (PJ Wood 1985) Chard and Illminster in Old Photographs  (Gerald Gosling & Frank Huddy 1992) Archival Photographs series : The Book of the Axe   (Les Berry & Gerald Gosling 1996) Various contemporary photographs View a map of the ancient Hundred of Whitway from Dorsetshire.com Find the 1891 ordinance survey map in the county gazetteer under DEVON View c 1900 ordinance survey map of Chardstock Chardstock Heritage link at the Devon Local Studies Library View photographs of Chardstock village on Reg Tarbox's  "Glorious Devon" site Search the Francis Frith historic photograph collection   Click on the parish name below to go to the related GENUKI site   Chardstock

This page last updated 11 February 2005