Chagford is a market town[a] and civil parish on the north-east edge of Dartmoor, in Devon, England, close to the River Teign and the A382, 4 miles (6 km) west of Moretonhampstead. The name is derived from chag, meaning gorse or broom, and the ford suffix indicates its importance as a crossing place. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 1,449.[4]
^White's Devonshire Directory (1850) Archived 11 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine Present day parish boundaries are essentially the same as the 1850 boundaries
^"Devon – Chagford". Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs to 1516. history.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
^"Local Government Act 1972". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
^"Ward population 2011". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
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