The Bath Chronicle is a weekly newspaper, first published under various titles before 1760 in Bath, England

England

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. Prior to September 2007, it was published daily.

Name changes

The Bath Journal was published in 1743, and was renamed Boddely's Bath Journal. It was renamed Keene's Bath Journal in January 1822, and was eventually taken over by the Bath Herald in March 1916. The newspaper also originated from the Bath Chronicle and Universal Register taking over from the Bath Advertiser which was published from 1755.

By 1919 it had changed its name to the Bath and Wilts Chronicle as a result of a merger with another paper. The Bath Herald was merged with the Bath Chronicle in 1925 to become the Bath Chronicle and Herald, amended in 1936 to Bath Weekly Chronicle and Herald.

The early 1960s was a time for another minor name change to Bath and Wilts Evening Chronicle.

On September 21, 2007, The Bath Chronicle announced plans to switch from daily to weekly publication.

The paper celebrated its official 250th anniversary in October 2010.It published a special "Celebrating 250 Years of the Bath Chronicle" supplement to mark the occasion.

Ownership

It is currently (2010) owned by Northcliffe Media

Northcliffe Media

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, part of the Daily Mail and General Trust

Daily Mail and General Trust

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 newsgroup, and published as part of the Bath Newspapers Group. Its circulation reaches the population of Bath and the surrounding areas including parts of Wiltshire

Wiltshire

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 and Somerset

Somerset

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Associated publications

A series of weekly supplements included the Property Chronicle, the Bath Observer and the Norton Radstock & Frome Observer. The Observer supplements ceased publication in 2008.

A Georgian

Georgian era

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Newspaper Project has developed a database which contains information from the Bath Chronicle for the years 1770–1800.