Calne Without is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ...

, England. It is a rural parish surrounding the town of

Calne Calne () is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, southwestern England,OS Explorer Map 156, Chippenham and Bradford-on-Avon Scale: 1:25 000.Publisher: Ordnance Survey A2 edition (2007). at the northwestern extremity of the North Wessex Downs ...

, extending west to the Avon and south to the

Roman road from London to Bath The Roman road from Silchester to Bath connected Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) with Aquae Sulis (Bath, Somerset, Bath) via Spinae (Speen, Berkshire, Speen), Cunetio (near Marlborough, Wiltshire, Marlborough) and Verlucio (near Sandy Lane, Wilts ...

. Settlements in the parish are the village of

Derry Hill Derry Hill is a village in the English county of Wiltshire, in the civil parish of Calne Without. It has an elevated position at the northern edge of the Bowood House estate, about south-east of the centre of the town of Chippenham. Geography ...

; the small villages of Calstone Wellington, Sandy Lane, Stockley and Studley; the dispersed settlement of Stock; the hamlets of Blackland, Broad's Green, Buck Hill,

Mile Elm Mile Elm is a hamlet in central Wiltshire, England, with a population of around 40 residents. It lies on the A3102 road, south-west of the town of Calne. There was a farm at Mile End in 1728; the area to the east of the road was the tithing of S ...

Pewsham Pewsham is a small village and former civil parish just south-east of the town of Chippenham on the A4 national route towards Calne in Wiltshire, southwestern England. Description Although signposted as Pewsham on the main road at both ends ...

and Theobald's Green; and part of the hamlet of Ratford. The parish also encompasses the former tithing of Calstone, and the country house estates of Bowood and Whetham. The parish was created in 1890 when the large Calne parish was divided. The municipal area became Calne Within parish and the remainder formed Calne Without, together with the land of the abolished Blackland and Calstone Wellington parishes and the

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of Bowood, and a small area of Bremhill parish. In 1934, Calne Without was reduced in size by transferring to Calne Within an area with a population of around 900, and transferring a smaller area to

Cherhill Cherhill is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is about east of the town of Calne, on the A4 road towards Marlborough. The parish includes the village of Yatesbury. Overview Cherhill has a population of around 7 ...

. Finally, when Pewsham parish (to the west) was abolished in 1984 its rural area was transferred to Calne Without. The River Marden flows through the parish from its source near Calstone Wellington.

Proposed abolition

A Community Governance Review begun in 2021 may result in abolition of the parish. Its western area would form a new parish of Derry Hill & Studley (to include Pewsham and Sandy Lane), while other parts would be transferred to Bremhill, Heddington and

parishes. , the recommendations have draft status.

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* Civil parishes in Wiltshire {{wiltshire-geo-stub