Bower Chalke, Wiltshire Family History Guide

Bower Chalke is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Wiltshire, created in 1720 from a chapelry in Broad Chalke Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Bowerchalke

Parish church: Holy Trinity

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1694
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1608; 1623

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BOWER-CHALK, a parish in Wilton district, Wilts; near Cranborne Chase, 5 miles S of Dinton r. station, and 7½ SW of Wilton. Post Town, Broad-Chalk, under Salisbury. Acres, 2,966. Real property, with Broad-Chalk, £9,812. Pop., 496. Houses, 104. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Broad-Chalk, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is tolerable.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

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

England, Wiltshire, Bower-Chalk – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Bower-Chalk, 1608-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bower-Chalk (Wiltshire)

Church records, 1842-1937
Author: Bower Chalk Baptist Church (Wiltshire)

Parish registers for Bower-Chalk, 1694-1975
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bower-Chalk (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, Bower-Chalk – History ( 1 )
The Bowerchalke parish papers : Colletts village newspaper, 1878-1924
Author: Sawyer, Rex L.

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

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Maps

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Administration

  • County: Wiltshire
  • Civil Registration District: Wilton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Chalke
  • Poor Law Union: Wilton
  • Hundred: Chalk
  • Province: Canterbury