Cherhill, Wiltshire Family History Guide
Cherhill is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Wiltshire, created in 1844 from a chapelry in Calne Ancient Parish.
Parish church: St. James
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1690
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1585
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist
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Parish History
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
CHERHILL, a parish in Calne district, Wilts; near Wans Dyke, 2 ½ miles E by S of Calne, and 7 NNE of Devizes r. station. It has a post-office under Chippenham, Wiltshire.
Acres, 1,817. Real property, £2,574. Pop., 364. Houses, 88. The property is all in one estate. An ancient square camp with double works, called Oldbury, is on the summit of a chalk hill; and the figure of a horse, 157 feet long, cut out of the turf about 1780, and visible for many miles, is on the side of the same hill.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is old but very good, and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Wiltshire
- Civil Registration District: Calne
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Treasurer of Salisbury in the Prebendal of Calne
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Avebury
- Poor Law Union: Calne
- Hundred: Calne
- Province: Canterbury