Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHOLDERTON (West)

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.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cholderton AP/CP       Amesbury RegD/PLU       Wiltshire AncC
Place names: CHOLDERTON     |     CHOLDERTON WEST     |     WEST CHOLDERTON
Place: Cholderton

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