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Chicklade
Chicklade is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, South West England. The village is on the A303 road, about 7 miles (11 km) south of Warminster. 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.
The name Chicklade is first attested in a charter 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 Common Brittonic word that survives in modern Welsh as coed ("woodland").
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 Heytesbury r. station. Post town, Hindon, under Salisbury. Acres, 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 living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £230. Patron, the Marquis of Bath. The church is good.
On 22 October 1963 the prototype BAC One-Eleven 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)
The Church of England parish church 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 William Lisle Bowles was Vicar of Chicklade 1792–97.
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Chicklade
Chicklade is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, South West England. The village is on the A303 road, about 7 miles (11 km) south of Warminster. 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.
The name Chicklade is first attested in a charter 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 Common Brittonic word that survives in modern Welsh as coed ("woodland").
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 Heytesbury r. station. Post town, Hindon, under Salisbury. Acres, 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 living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £230. Patron, the Marquis of Bath. The church is good.
On 22 October 1963 the prototype BAC One-Eleven 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)
The Church of England parish church 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 William Lisle Bowles was Vicar of Chicklade 1792–97.