Chicklade
| Chicklade | |
| Wiltshire | |
|---|---|
 All Saints' parish church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | ST911345 |
| Location: | 51°6’36"N, 2°7’37"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 75 (2011) |
| Post town: | Salisbury |
| Postcode: | SP3 |
| Dialling code: | 01747 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Wiltshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South West Wiltshire |
Chicklade is a small village in Wiltshire, on the A303 trunk road, and about seven miles south of Warminster. The wider parish of Chicklade includes the hamlet of Upper Pertwood.
The Great Ridge Wood, also known as Chicklade Wood, is less than a mile north of the village, just over the parish boundary.
History
John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72) describes Chicklade as follows:
CHICKLADE, a parish in Tisbury district, Wilts; 1¼ mile N by E of Hindon, and 5 S by-W of Heytesbury r. station. Post town, Hindon, under Salisbury. Acres, 1,039. Real property, with Hindon, Berwick-St. Leonard, and Fonthill-Gifford, £5,111. Pop., 143. Houses, 23. The property is divided among a few. The surface is hilly. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £230. Patron, the Marquis of Bath. The church is good.[1]
On 22 October 1963 the prototype BAC One-Eleven aircraft G-ASHG flown by Michael Lithgow entered a deep stall and crashed near Chicklade, killing all seven crew.
Churches
The Church of England parish church of All Saints was built in 1832 to designs in 12th-century style by J.B. Papworth. It stands on the site of a 12th-century church.[2]
The poet William Lisle Bowles was Vicar of Chicklade 1792-97.
Pertwood also had a 12th-century church, St Peter's, which was rebuilt in 1872. The ecclesiastical parish of Pertwood was separate until 1899 when it was united with Chicklade, then in 1921, Chicklade with Pertwood was united with Hindon parish. The church at Pertwood was declared redundant in 1972.[3]
Parish registers for Chicklade survive from 1722 and are kept in the Wiltshire and Swindon Archives.[4]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Chicklade) |
- Wiltshire and Swindon Sites and Monument Record Information: Chicklade at history.wiltshire.gov.uk
References
- ↑ Wilson, John Marius: Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (A. Fullerton & Co., 1870)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1318426: Church of All Saints
- ↑ Chicklade – A History of the County of Wiltshire - Volume pp 105-114: {{{2}}} (Victoria County History)
- ↑ Information on Chicklade from GENUKI
- A History of the County of Wiltshire - Volume : {{{2}}} (Victoria County History) – [1]
- Wilson, John Marius: Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (A. Fullerton & Co., 1870) – on A Vision of Britain