The lost village of Chart: Settlement possibly demolished due to disease only remembered due to curious artifact
The lost village of Chart: Settlement possibly demolished due to disease only remembered due to curious artifact | No-one knows exactly what happened to the village of Chart. Mentioned as a manor in the Domesday Book, it was clearly once an important place with a right to hold a market every Tuesday granted by Royal Charter from Edward II in 1310 and a three-day fair to celebrate St John the Baptist's day. Chart existed in Anglo-Saxon times: re-enactors Janet and Bob Connelly It seems to have existed in an area now covered by woodland near to Pizien Well that today falls within the parish...
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