OPC Vacancy
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Atworth – Bradford On Avon – Broughton Gifford – Holt – South Wraxall
Websites of Interest
All Saints Church – Wiltshire Historic Churches Trust
The Parish Church of All Saints
All Saints Gallery All Saints Interior Gallery
Heraldry on the Tropnell Chapel Stone Screen Interior Wall Memorial Inscriptions
Church News
1800-1899 1900-1999 2000 – Present
Parish Register Transcripts
Baptisms
1545-1599 1600-1699 1700-1749 1750-1799 1800-1837
Marriages
Burials
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1545-1991
Marriages 1608-1993
Burials 1581-1985
Parish History
Great Chalfield or Chalfield Magna lies a little to the north east of Bradford on Avon. All Saints built as a private chapel adjoining the mediaeval manor house by the family of Tropenell during the 15th century. There is a panelled cradle roof, a stone screen carved with heraldry, a Georgian three-decker pulpit and wall paintings depicting the life of St. Katherine. The manor house is in the care of the National Trust.
The parish also includes Little Chalfield.
Civil Registration
1837 – April 1936 Bradford Registration District
April 1936 – Present Trowbridge Registration District
Buildings and Land
Agriculture
Chalfield Manor
Great Chalfield Manor was used in the BBC dramatisation of Poldark. It is used as the home of Caroline & Dr. Enys known as Killewarren. The Chalfield Manor House appealed to the production team because it is still lived in by the original family, the Floyds. This gives ‘Killewarren’ a feeling of warmth and domesticity which couldn’t be recreated in a studio.
Old House to be Repaired 1904 Struck by Lightning 1938 Gift to the Nation 1942
Farms
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1808-1811
Crime and Legal Matters
Crime Reports 1800-1899 Water Rights Dispute Hargreaves v Fuller 1890 Crime Mystery 1934 Runaway Car 1937
Directories
Post Office 1855 Post Office 1875 Post Office 1875 (Little Chalfield & Cottles) Kellys 1889 Kellys 1915 Kellys 1915 (Little Chalfield & Cottles)
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Agriculture
Spackman Family Agricultural Success 1850-1899 Walter Spencer Agricultural Success 1862-1878
Avon Rubber
Situations Vacant & Wanted
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
West Wilts Constitutional Association Ball 1928
Celebrations
Diamond Wedding Celebration 1931 Engagement, Marriage & Tragedy 1938
Census Returns Transcripts
Elections and Polls
Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 Voters List 1832 (Little Chalfield) Voters Lists Revisions 1843
Entertainment
Hunt Ball 1929 Avon Vale Hunt Ball 1934
Family Notices
1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1949 1950-1999
Funeral Reports
General Items
High Sheriff of Wiltshire Nominations 1925 Major Fuller’s Illness 1939
Inquests
Obituaries
Personal Research Items
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
Taxes
Weddings
| Guest List at Wedding of P. J. S. Boyle & M. E. Fuller 1938 | George Church & Doris Randall 1939 | Christopher Fuller & Susan Hambro 1939 |
| Second Marriage of Mary Fuller 1948 |
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Appointments of Poor Law Officers
Election of Poor Law Union Officers 1835 Bradford Union Medical Appointments 1842 Election of Guardians of the Poor March 1842 Election of Guardians of the Poor June 1842
General Items
Bradford Union Registration Districts 1836 Tender to Survey Parishes for Poor Rate Assessment 1837 Poor Law Union Audit 1849
Probate
Probate Estate Notice of Mrs. Fuller 1931 Probate Estate Notice of Major Fuller 1956
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
WWI
Casualties
Oliver Burgess 1914 Arthur George Reynolds 1918 Frederick William James Young 1918
Memorials and Commemoration Items
Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918 Parish Roll of Honour 1915 WWI Roll of Honour Plaque
