IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Wambrook Place, CHARD, TA20 1FL
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Wambrook Place, TA20 1FL by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (23 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
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High Street, Chard
At the junction with Helliers Road
Image: © Ken Grainger
Taken: 20 Feb 2009
0.09 miles
4
Snowdon Heights, Chard
A small residential street on the west of Chard
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 20 Aug 2019
0.10 miles
5
Chard museum
One of a row of terraced buildings in the High Street
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 5 Jun 2014
0.13 miles
6
Chard Museum - lace making machine
Chard was a centre of lace industry and this is a machine for making plain lace netting. Although the industry has gone from the town centre the nearby Perry Street Works is operated by Swiss Tulle and still makes plain netting with what is claimed to be the world's largest collection of working lace machines.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 30 Jun 2023
0.13 miles
7
Direction Sign ? Signpost
Exhibited in Chard Museum, Godworthy House, the High Street in Chard Town parish. 3 arms and pyramid finial. Thought to have been moved from ST3767313544 in Kingstone. An updated photo of https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6045524.
Milestone Society National ID: SO_ST3108
Image: © E Spence
Taken: 26 Sep 2018
0.13 miles
8
Chard Museum - steam engine for a balloon
This is a vertical twin cylinder (duplex) engine with simple slide valves and Stephenson link reversing motion. It was built by John Stringfellow to propel a balloon to relieve the besieged city of Paris in 1870. The city fell before it could be used. Part of the boiler is seen on the left. The Science Museum store at Wroughton has another Stringfellow engine that was built to propel a balloon.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 30 Jun 2023
0.13 miles
9
Chard Museum - John Stringfellow display
John Stringfellow was a Victorian aviation pioneer and hanging from the ceiling is a replica of the Henson-Stringfellow plane. Henson patented this in 1842 and it is thought that this was made flesh with a 20 foot wingspan by John Stringfellow who attempted to fly it with a small steam engine on Bewley Down in 1847. These trials were unsuccessful although lasting several weeks. The original is in the Science Museum, London.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 30 Jun 2023
0.13 miles
