Cherhill, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Cherhill, a parish in Wilts, near Wans Dyke, 2½ miles E by S of Calne station on the G.W.R., and 7 NNE of Devizes. It has a post office under Calne. Acreage, 1904; population of the civil parish, 277; of the ecclesiastical, 349. The area of the ecclesiastical parish was enlarged in 1879, by the addition of a portion of Calne parish. An ancient square camp with double works, called Oldbury, is on the summit of a chalk hill, and the figure of a horse, 157 feet long, cut out of the turf about 1780, and visible for many miles, is on the side of the same hill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £250 with residence. The church is old but very good.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Wiltshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Cherhill St. James | |
Hundred | Calne | |
Poor Law union | Calne |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1690.
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Cherhill:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1584-1917 | 1754-1803 | 1588-1895 | 1588-1933 |
Churches
Church of England
St. James (parish church)
The church of St. James is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing 4 bells: it was restored and enlarged, under the direction of the late Mr. S. Gabriel, architect, in the year 1863, and has 280 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Cherhill from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cherhill (St. James))
Maps
Online maps of Cherhill are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Wiltshire papers online: