Broad Chalk, Wiltshire

Description
Broad-Chalk, a village and a parish in Wilts. The village stands on the Vale of Chalk, near Cranborne Chase, 4 miles S by E of Dinton station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5 1/2 SW of Wilton, and has a post and money order office under Salisbury; telegraph office, Dinton. It was for some time the residence of John Aubrey the antiquary. The parish includes also the hamlets of Knighton and Stoke-Farthing. Acreage, 6966; population, 661. The manor originally belonged to the Abbess of Wilton. In 1447 she presented the " Prebendaryship of Chalke" to Henry VI., who in the year following gave it to his newly founded " King's College" Cambridge, the present patrons of the living (in the diocese of Salisbury); the present value is £250. The church belongs mostly to the time of Henry VII., the tower and south transept being later, while the chancel, north transept, and west doorway are Early English. The church was carefully restored in 1874. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.