History
The oldest house in the village is the manor house, which is situated near the parish church. The village lines a street over a mile long and has many attractive Cotswold stone houses.
A railway line once served the village – the Midland & South Western Junction Railway (later part of the Great Western Railway), which closed in September 1961. It ran through Chedworth Tunnel, 494 yards in length, and Chedworth railway station was in a deep cutting.
During the Second World War there was an RAF airfield at RAF Chedworth. The remnants of this can be seen today.
Chedworth was mentioned in author Craig Thomas' first novel "Rat Trap" published in 1976.
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