| Chard & Ilminster News | |
| Type: | Weekly newspaper |
| Owners: | Newsquest |
| Foundation: | 1874 |
| Circulation: | 1,461 |
| Circulation Date: | 2023 |
| Circulation Ref: | [1] |
The Chard and Ilminster News is a local newspaper in Somerset, England.
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]
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]