Chatsworth is a community in Grey County, Ontario, Canada, part of the Township of Chatsworth. It is located south of Owen Sound and north of Durham where Highways 6 and 10 merge. The village neighbours Williamsford,

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, and Desboro.

History

Originally named ''Johnstown'' after an early landowner, the post office was renamed ''Holland East'' in 1851. It was renamed again to its present name in 1857. The name comes from

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, in Derbyshire, near the home town of the postmaster at that time. Chatsworth was founded in 1848 at the northern terminus of the Toronto-Sydenham Colonization Road. Modern Highway 10 follows most of the original road's route. On January 1, 2001, The Village of Chatsworth was merged into the new Township of Chatsworth, along with Holland and Sullivan Townships. Famous Canadian suffragette Nellie McClung was born in Chatsworth.

Transportation

Chatsworth sits at the junction of Ontario Highway 6 and Ontario Highway 10, which are the modern-day evolutions of the

Garafraxa Colonization Road The colonization roads were created during the 1840s and 1850s to open up or provide access to areas in Central and Eastern Ontario for settlement and agricultural development. The colonization roads were used by settlers to lead them toward areas ...

and the Toronto-Sydenham Colonization Road respectively. The

Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway The Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway (TG&B) was a railway company which operated in Ontario, Canada in the years immediately following the Canadian Confederation of 1867. It connected two rural counties, Grey County and Bruce County, with the provi ...

once passed through the village, but that section of its line (then owned by Canadian Pacific) was abandoned in the 1980s. It is served by Kasper Transportation's Owen Sound to Guelph intercity bus route, which began operating in January 2020 with a fourteen-seat passenger van. There are two buses in each direction on Monday to Saturday, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

References

Communities in Grey County Former villages in Ontario Populated places disestablished in 2001 {{WesternOntario-geo-stub