Name | Chittoe |
Type | Tything, Chapelry, Civil parish |
Located in | Wiltshire, England ( - 1934) |
See also | Potterne and Cannings Hundred, Wiltshire, England | hundred in which it was located | | Devizes Rural, Wiltshire, England | rural district, 1894 - 1934 | | Bromham, Wiltshire, England | civil parish into which it was merged in 1934 |
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Chittoe from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "CHITTOE, or Chitway, a tything in Bishops-Canning parish, and a chapelry in Bishops-Canning and Bromham parishes, Wilts. The tything lies on the Roman road to Bath, 4½ miles NE by E of Melksham [railway] station, and 5 NW of Devizes. Acres: 1, 100. Real property: £1, 275. Population: 180. Houses: 44.
- "The chapelry was constituted in 1846. Post town, Bromham, under Chippenham. Population: 382. Houses: 85. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value: £90. Patron: the Bishop of Salisbury."
Chittoe was merged into the civil parish of Bromham in 1934.
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