Looking for a taxi transfer to a Cruise Ship Terminal from Chard? Why not start your cruise in style, we offer cost effective travel from Chard to the following ports:

• Chard to the Port of Dover
• Chard to the Port of Greenock/Glasgow
• Chard to the Port of Harwich
• Chard to the Port of Hull
• Chard to the Port of Liverpool
• Chard to the Port of Portsmouth
• Chard to the Port of Southampton
• Chard to the Port of Leith/Edinburgh
• Chard to the Port of London Tilbury
• Chard to the Port of Felixstowe
• Chard to the Port of Newcastle

With many years’ experience in ensuring our customers arrive at their destination on time, Cars Exec offer the very best in service with our excellent chauffeurs.

Our chauffeur driven taxi service provides comfort, style and luxury, all in one trip, to any of the major UK cruise ports from your home or airport. We will then be there on your return, ready to take care of you and your luggage, returning you home with the minimum of stress.

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Professional corporate travel

We provide a trusted, professional but discreet service to our business and corporate clients in Chard, with impeccable chauffeur driven cars as well as luxury people carriers to Chard based UK Companies, international business and discerning private clients, travelling to and from London.

Cars Exec offer cars to and from important meetings, a meet and greet service from major airports and train stations across mainland UK. as well as a daily commute service locally, or long distance to London and other UK cities

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Want to make your special event even more stylish? We will sweep you off to a day at the races, a concert, a birthday treat or even a proposal in our comfortable, luxurious cars. Just sit back and relax as you ride in style in executive chauffeur driven hire,

• Wimbledon.
• Birthday Treat / Surprise.
• Ascot.
• Silverstone.
• Wembley / O2 Arena.
• Anniversary celebrations.

Our VIP car service is the perfect prestige car hire service for you if you want to make the right impression, but at comparable taxi prices.

Chard in Somerset

Chard is a town and a civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It lies on the A30 road near the Devon and Dorset borders, 15 miles south west of Yeovil. Chard is the southernmost and one of the highest towns in Somerset.

A Brief History of Chard

People have been living in the Chard area since prehistoric times and villas nearby at Tatworth and Wadeford show that Romans lived here too, but the first written mention of the town was in 1065 just prior to the Norman invasion. A little over twenty years later the Doomsday Book recorded details of the settlement which was then a large, though not rich, manor.

The name of the town was Cerden in 1065 and Cerdre in the Domesday Book of 1086. After the Norman Conquest, Chard was held by the Bishop of Wells. The town’s first charter was from King John in 1234. Most of the town was destroyed by fire in 1577, and it was further damaged during the English Civil War.

A 1663 will by Richard Harvey of Exeter established Almshouses known as Harvey’s Hospital. In 1685 during the Monmouth Rebellion, the pretender James Scott was proclaimed King in the Town prior to his defeat on Sedgemoor. Chard subsequently witnessed the execution and traitor’s death of 12 condemned rebels, who were tried at Taunton Castle by the infamous Judge Jeffries, and hanged near the Tesco roundabout.

Chard was a key point on the Taunton Stop Line, a World War II defensive line consisting of pillboxes and anti-tank obstacles, which runs from Axminster north to the Somerset coast near Highbridge. In 1938 a bomb proof bunker was built behind the branch of the Westminster Bank. During the war it was used to hold duplicate copies of the bank records in case its headquarters in London was destroyed. It was also used to store the emergency bank note supply of the Bank of England.

The town has a very unusual feature, a stream running along either side of Fore Street. One stream eventually flows into the Bristol Channel and the other reaches the English Channel. Chard Reservoir, approximately a mile north east of the town, is a Local Nature Reserve, and Snowdon Hill Quarry a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest.