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Bath Chronicle
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Front page of Bath Chronicle
TypeDaily newspaper
Formattabloid
Owner(s)Northcliffe Media
EditorSam Holliday
Founded1760
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersBath, Somerset
Circulation12,749 (Jan-June 2006)[1]
Websitehttp://www.thisisbath.co.uk/

The Bath Chronicle is a daily newspaper, published since 1760 in Bath, England.

It may have originally been published as the Bath Chronicle and Universal Register taking over from the Bath Advertiser which was published from 1755.[2]

It is owned by Northcliffe Media, part of the Daily Mail newsgroup, and published as part of the Bath Newspapers Group.

It is a tabloid newspaper with a circulation of 12,749 (Jan-June 2006).[1]

The circulation reaches the population of Bath and the surrounding areas including parts of Wiltshire and Somerset.

Weekly and monthly supplements are produced including; The Business, Property, Drive, The Guide (entertainment), Jobs, Life & Soul, 7 Days

A Georgian Newspaper Project is developing a database which will contain information from the Bath Chronicle for the years 1770-1800.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Circulation and readership numbers from Bath Newspapers Cite error: The named reference "thisisbath" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  2. ^ "A chronological hand-list of eighteenth century newspapers published in Bristol, Gloucestershire and Somerset". Fishponds Local History Society. Retrieved 2007-02-26.
  3. ^ "Bath Chronicle Georgian Newspaper Project". Bath & North East Somerset Council. Retrieved 2007-02-26.