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

Adjacent Parishes

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].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Wiltshire, Cherhill – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Cherhill, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Wiltshire, Cherhill – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Cherhill, 1585-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Cherhill (Wiltshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1690-1900
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Cherhill (Wiltshire)

Parish registers for Cherhill, 1690-1983
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Cherhill (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, Cherhill – History ( 5 )
The manor and village of Cherhill : a Wiltshire village from early times to the present day
Author: Blackford, J. H.

My jottings on Cherhill : an historical (and often lighthearted) look at Che[r]hill, Wiltshire, ancestral home of Arthur Cleverly, with the Cleverly register from 1661-1995
Author: Cleverly, Arthur; Caswell, Michael James

Occupation “ag lab”
Author: Cleverly, Arthur

Villages of Wiltshire–Cherhill : [part 1]
Author: Cleverly, Arthur

Villages of Wiltshire–Cherhill : [part 2]
Author: Cleverly, Arthur

England, Wiltshire, Cherhill – Manors – Court records ( 1 )
Manor court rolls in Cherhill, Wiltshire, 1697-1733
Author: Manor of Cherhill. Court (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, Cherhill – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments in Cherhill, Wiltshire 1780-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Wiltshire)

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