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Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Avebury – Bishops Cannings – Blackland – Calne – Calstone Wellington – Compton Bassett – Highway – Yatesbury
Websites of Interest
Cherhill – Village Website
The Parish Church of St. James the Great
St. James Gallery St. James Interior Gallery St. James Churchyard Gallery
Extracts from the Burial Register 1813-1917 St. James Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions
Parish Register Transcripts
Marriages
Please note that the marriages 1709-1930 are extracts only and are not a full transcription of the records
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1690-1983
Marriages 1709-1998
Burials 1708-1933
Parish History
Population Figures
In 1893 there were 404 residents by 1951 this had risen to 6359
Civil Registration
1837 – April 1936 Calne Registration District
April 1836 – Present Chippenham Registration District
Buildings and Land
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1808-1811 Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1813-1814 Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawing North Wilts 1826
Cherhill White Horse
The White Horse at Cherhill is 129 feet long and is in perfect proportion. It was constructed by Dr. Allsop who shouted instructions from a vantage point half a mile away. The date was late 1700’s. Cherhill Monument was built is 1845 by Lord Landsdowne in memory of an ancestor although some reports say it was built to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Wales. It cost £1359 and has been tidied up recently by public donation. Images of the White Horse can be found in the Cherhill White Horse Gallery.
White Horses of Wiltshire 1930
Public Houses
The Black Horse
Taxes
Land Tax Assessments
Crime and Legal Matters
Assault
Attack on George Brown 1850-1851
Bastardy
Bastardy Examinations Bastardy Examination Flower v Hazell 1857
Courts
Police Court
Directories
Post Office 1855 Post Office 1875 Gillmans 1900 Swindon & District 1928 Kellys 1931
Education
There was a National School here
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Apprentices
Wiltshire Society
Community Services
Police
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Primitive Methodist Chapel
Roman Catholic Chapel
People and Parish Notables
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Horticulture
Compton Bassett Flower Show 1932
Debtors
Census Returns Transcripts
1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911
Coroner Bills
County coroners were introduced in England in around 1194 once established other boroughs and liberties sought the right to have their own coroner. Often in Medieval times the coroner also assumed the role of the sheriff and his duties weren’t limited to holding inquests on dead bodies although almost a full time post they were unpaid for the duties apart from those that were deemed murder or manslaughter when they would receive 13s. 4d. From the 24th June 1752 a law was passed allowing the coroner to claim £1 for every inquest they attended not held in a gaol and also to claim 9d per mile travel allowance from the place of residence. Inquests held in any gaol were performed at a rate totalling no more than £1. These costs were to be paid from the county rates. In cases of homicide the coroner also received the former fee of 13s. 4d. The coroners submitted their bills at the quarter session sittings for approval.
Coroners Bills 1752-1796 Edmund Fowler 1769
Elections and Polls
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 Voters Lists Revisions 1843 MP Nominations 2015 MP Nomonations 2017
Family Notices
Personal Research Items
Flower Surname – Baptism Extracts
Tuck Family Research Burial Extracts – This item was donated by Ken Tuck and contains entries that may or may not relate to the Tuck family however they have been published as such. Many refer to Quaker burials found across the county
Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse
Probate
National Probate Index 1858-1966
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Service Men and Women
Servicemen & Families with the 1st Wilts. Regt. in South Africa 1911
WWI
British Red Cross/V. A. D. Volunteers
Casualties
WWII
Home Guard
Home Guards 1940-1944 Home Guard Awards 1944
