Chicklade
| Chicklade | |
 All Saints' parish church |
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  Chicklade |
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| Population | 75 (2011 Census) |
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| OS grid reference | ST911345 |
| Civil parish | Chicklade |
| Unitary authority | Wiltshire |
| Ceremonial county | Wiltshire |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Salisbury |
| Postcode district | SP3 |
| Dialling code | 01747 |
| Police | Wiltshire |
| Fire | Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | South West Wiltshire |
Coordinates: 51°06′35″N 2°07′38″W / 51.1096°N 2.1271°W
Chicklade is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire in southern England. The village is on the A303 road about 15 miles (24 km) westnorthwest of Salisbury. Chicklade is in the area of Wiltshire Council unitary authority, which has its seat in Trowbridge. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 75.[1]
History
Chicklade is centred on its medieval Church of England parish church.
Parish registers survive from 1722 and are kept in the Wiltshire and Swindon Archives.[2]
The poet William Lisle Bowles was Vicar of Chicklade 1792–97.
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.[3]
On 22 October 1963 the prototype BAC One-Eleven aircraft G-ASHG flown by Mike Lithgow entered a deep stall and crashed near Chicklade, killing all seven crew. (See 1963 BAC One-Eleven test crash)
References
- ↑ "Chicklade Census Information". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
- ↑ Chicklade, Wiltshire at genuki.org.uk
- ↑ Wilson 1870–72
Sources and further reading
- Crowley, DA (ed); Freeman, Jane; Stevenson, Janet H (1987). A History of the County of Wiltshire. Victoria County History. 13: South-west Wiltshire: Chalke and Dunworth hundreds. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research. pp. 105–114. ISBN 978-0197227695.
- Wilson, John Marius (1870–72). Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. London & Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co.
External links
Media related to Chicklade at Wikimedia Commons
- Wiltshire and Swindon Sites and Monument Record Information: Chicklade at history.wiltshire.gov.uk
- Chicklade at Google Maps