In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Chesterblade like this:

CHESTERBLADE, a chapelry in Evercreech parish, Somerset; adjacent to the East Somerset railway, 3¼ miles ESE of Shepton-Mallet. Post town, Evercreech, under Bath. Real property, £2, 347. Pop., 57. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Ever-creech, in the diocese of Bath and Wells.

Chesterblade through time

Chesterblade is now part of SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Chesterblade itself, go to Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Chesterblade in Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24784

Date accessed: 08th April 2026


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