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Short History
THE SOMERSET WAGON.CHILCOMPTON
This building became an inn around 1874 when the Somerset and Dorset Railway line was opened and Chilcompton Railway station was established at the bottom of the inns garden. It was then called The Railway Inn.
Prior to that event the inn was a private house with a separate building to the south-east, which extended to the road, Broadway. That building is still there in 2008, but with the western part missing. It was used as living quarters, stables, a coach house and a blacksmiths premises.
Before becoming an inn, the main building was owned by John Chard (1784). By 1822 John Chard (junior) was the occupant with Betty Savage renting the aforementioned side buildings. By 1849 Joseph Chard was the owner, but John Wilcox was renting. When it became an inn Thomas Watts was the first innkeeper and the subsequent Landlords were
William Jones 1894, Arthur Perkins 1906, Fred Perkins, Jim Derrick, Len Kerton, Terry Sage 1987, Adrian Brixey 1998,
The name of the inn was changed to the Sword & Castle in 1975, and again to The Somerset Wagon in 1987 after a massive refurbishment by the Wadworth brewery.
The Somerset Wagon has always been a popular meeting place but no more so than now in the capable hands of the current landlord Vincent Webb since February 8th 2008
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