Chicklade is a small village and
civil parish
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in
Wiltshire
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,
South West England
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. The village is on the
A303 road
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, about south of
Warminster
Warminster () is an ancient market town with a nearby garrison, and civil parish in south west Wiltshire, England, on the western edge of Salisbury Plain. The parish had a population of about 17,000 in 2011. The 11th-century Minster Church of S ...
. The parish includes the hamlet of
Upper Pertwood.
The
Great Ridge Wood
Great Ridge Wood, formerly also known as Chicklade Wood, is one of the largest woodlands in southern Wiltshire, England. Mostly within the parishes of Boyton and Sherrington, and entirely within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area ...
, formerly 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
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'' (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
Heytesbury is a village (formerly considered to be a town) and a civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village lies on the north bank of the Wylye, about southeast of the town of Warminster.
The civil parish includes most of the small neigh ...
r. station. Post town, Hindon, under Salisbury. Acre
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s, 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
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is a rector
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y in the diocese of Salisbury
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. Value, £230. Patron, the Marquis of Bath
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. The church is good.
On 22 October 1963 the prototype
BAC One-Eleven
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aircraft ''G-ASHG'' flown by
Mike Lithgow
Michael John Lithgow, OBE (30 August 1920 – 22 October 1963) was a British aviator and chief test pilot for Vickers Supermarine who became the holder of the World Absolute Air Speed Record in 1953 flying a Supermarine Swift. He died when th ...
entered a
deep stall
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and crashed near Chicklade, killing all seven crew. (See
1963 BAC One-Eleven test crash)
Churches
The
Church of England
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parish church
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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.
The poet
William Lisle Bowles
William Lisle Bowles (24 September 17627 April 1850) was an English priest, poet and critic.
Life and career
Bowles was born at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, where his father was vicar. At the age of 14 he entered Winchester College, where ...
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.
Parish register
A parish register in an ecclesiastical parish is a handwritten volume, normally kept in the parish church in which certain details of religious ceremonies marking major events such as baptisms (together with the dates and names of the parents), ma ...
s for Chicklade survive from 1722 and are kept in the
Wiltshire and Swindon Archives
The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, serves as a focal point for heritage services relating to Wiltshire and Swindon. The centre opened in 2007 and is funded by Wiltshire Council and Swindon Borough Counc ...
.
Local government
The civil parish does not elect a
parish council. Instead the first tier of local government is a
parish meeting
A parish meeting, in England, is a meeting to which all the electors in a civil parish are entitled to attend.
In some cases, where a parish or group of parishes has fewer than 200 electors, the parish meeting can take on the role of a parish cou ...
, which all electors are entitled to attend.
The parish is in the area of
Wiltshire Council
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unitary authority
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, which is responsible for all significant local government functions.
References
Sources and further reading
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External links
Wiltshire and Swindon Sites and Monument Record Information: Chickladeat history.wiltshire.gov.uk
Chickladeat Google Maps
Civil parishes in Wiltshire
Villages in Wiltshire
Aviation accidents and incidents locations in England
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