In 1796, the viceroyalty was abolished, and the area, which was a part of Ustyuzhensky Uyezd, was transferred to Novgorod Governorate.

The settlement of Chagoda was founded in 1926 as Bely Bychok to serve a new glass making factory.

Simultaneously, the uyezds were abolished, and Verkhne-Chagodoshchensky District was established, with the administrative center in the selo of Belye Kresty.

In 1932, the district was renamed Chagodoshchensky, and Bely Bychok was granted urban-type settlement status.

Between 1932 and 1935, the administrative center of the district was in the urban-type settlement of Bely Bychok, but in 1935 it was transferred back to Belye Kresty.

During the abortive Khrushchyov administrative reform of the 1960s, Chagodoshchensky District was briefly disestablished in 1962 and then reestablished in 1965.

[14] A114 highway, connecting Vologda to Cherepovets and St. Petersburg, crosses the district from east to west, passing Sazonovo.

A considerable part of the Tikhvinskaya water system, one of the waterways constructed in the early 19th century to connect the basins of the Volga and the Neva Rivers, lies in Chagodoshchensky District.

Lake Yelgino is connected by the Tikhvin Canal, 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) with the upper course of the Volchina River.