Cholderton, Wiltshire Family History Guide

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Cholderton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.

Alternative names: Chelderton, West Cholderton

Parish church: St. Nicholas

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1652
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1608; 1621

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CHOLDERTON (West), a parish in Amesbury district, Wilts; on the verge of the county, 2¾ miles W by N of Grateley r. station, and 5 ENE of Amesbury. It has a post office, of the name of Cholderton, under Salisbury.

Acres, 1,661. Real property, with Allington and Newton-Toney, £4,637. Pop., 191. Houses, 38. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged formerly to the Foyles; and belongs now to the Dowager Countess Nelson.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £225. Patron, Oriel College, Oxford. The church was built in 1844; and is in the perendicular style, with an octagonal tower and a spire. Charities, £12.

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

Parish Registers

Marriages at Cholderton 1664-1752

Wiltshire Parish Registers – Marriages volume 7 – Marriages at Cholderton 1664-1752 – UK Genealogy Archives

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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England, Wiltshire, Cholderton
England, Wiltshire, Cholderton (West)

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

England, Wiltshire, West Cholderton – Church records ( 4 )
The bishop’s transcripts and parish registers of Cholderton : baptisms & burials, 1621-1837
Author: Wiltshire Family History Society; Jago, Robert S.; Church of England. Parish Church of West Cholderton (Wiltshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for West Cholderton, 1608-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Cholderton (Wiltshire)

Marriages at Colderston, 1664-1752
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Cholderton (Wiltshire)

Parish registers for West Cholderton, 1652-1974
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Cholderton (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, West Cholderton – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments in West Cholderton, Wiltshire 1780-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Wiltshire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

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