Chitterne All Saints, Wiltshire Family History Guide

Chitterne All Saints is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.

Alternative names: All Saints Chiltern, Chiltern All Saints

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1731
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731 1611; 1622

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CHITTERNE-ALL-SAINTS, or Chiltern-All Saints, a parish in Warminster district, Wilts; on an affluent of the river Wiley, near Knock Castle, 4 miles NNE of Codford r. station, and 8½ E by S of Warminster. Post town, Heytesbury, under Bath.

Acres, 4,476. Rated property, £2,482. Pop., 509. Houses, 104. The property is divided among a few. The parish is a meet for the South Wilts hounds.

The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Chitterue-St. Mary, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, 319. Patron, alternately the Bishop of Salisbury and the Dean and Chapter. The church was built in 1863, after designs by Wyatt; is in the perpendicular English style, 102 feet long and 52 wide; has an apsidal chancel with four unsymmetrical windows, and a western tower, 56 feet high; and consists of stone and flint, with Bath stone dressings.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Census

Census returns for Chitterne-All-Saints, 1841-1891

Church Records

Bishop’s transcripts for Chitterne-All Saints, 1611-1880 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Chitterne-All-Saints (Wiltshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Chitterne-St. Mary (Wiltshire)

Chitterne folk : early 1900s Author: Grout, Diana; Bingham, Carolyn S.; Hurley, Beryl

Parish registers of Chitterne-All-Saints, 1731-1921. Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Chitterne-All-Saints (Wiltshire)

Court Records

Manor court rolls in Chitterne, Wiltshire, 1673-1745 Author: Manor of Chitterne. Court (Wiltshire)

Taxation

Land tax assessments in Chitterne-All-Saints, Wiltshire 1780-1831 Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Wiltshire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Wiltshire
  • Civil Registration District: Warminster
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Wylye
  • Poor Law Union: Warminster
  • Hundred: Heytesbury
  • Province: Canterbury