Chatsworth, Ontario (former village)

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, Dornoch, and Desboro.

Chatsworth
Unincorporated village
Coordinates: 44°27′13″N 80°53′45″W
Country	Canada
province	Ontario
County	Grey
Township	Chatsworth
Elevation	296 m (971 ft)
Population  (2016)[1]
• Total	535
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code	N0H 1G0
Area codes	519 and 226

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 Chatsworth House, in Derbyshire, near the home town of the postmaster at that time.^[2]

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.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Chatsworth had a population of 560 living in 249 of its 255 total private dwellings, a change of 4.7% from its 2016 population of 535. With a land area of 0.76 km² (0.29 sq mi), it had a population density of 736.8/km² (1,908.4/sq mi) in 2021.^[3]

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 and the Toronto-Sydenham Colonization Road respectively. The Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway once passed through the village, but that section of its line (then owned by Canadian Pacific) was abandoned in the 1980s.