Chicklade is a small village and

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. The village is on the A303 road, about south of

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. The parish includes the hamlet of Upper Pertwood. The Great Ridge Wood, formerly also known as Chicklade Wood, is less than a mile north of the village, just over the parish boundary.

Etymology

The name ''Chicklade'' is first attested in a

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from between 901 and 924, as ''Cytlid'', later forms including ''Chikelaď'' (1199), ''Ciclet'' (1210–12), ''Ciklet'' (1242), and ''Chikelade'' (1281). Although the etymology of ''Chicklade'' is uncertain, its first syllable is agreed to originate in the

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word that survives in modern Welsh as ("woodland").

History

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
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r. station. Post town, Hindon, under Salisbury.
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s, 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
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is a rectory in the
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. Value, £230. Patron, the Marquis of Bath. The church is good.

On 22 October 1963 the prototype

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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)

Churches

The

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of All Saints was built in 1832 to designs in 12th-century style by J.B. Papworth. It stands on the site of a 12th-century church. The poet

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was Vicar of Chicklade 1792–97. Pertwood also had a 12th-century church, St Peter's, which was rebuilt in 1872. The ecclesiastical parish of Pertwood was separate until 1899 when it was united with Chicklade, then in 1921, Chicklade with Pertwood was united with Hindon parish. The church at Pertwood was declared redundant in 1972. Parish registers for Chicklade survive from 1722 and are kept in the Wiltshire and Swindon Archives.

Local government

The civil parish does not elect a parish council. Instead the first tier of local government is a

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, which all electors are entitled to attend. The parish is in the area of

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, which is responsible for all significant local government functions.

References

Sources and further reading

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External links

Wiltshire and Swindon Sites and Monument Record Information: Chicklade
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