Place:Chute Forest, Wiltshire, England

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NameChute Forest
TypeExtra parochial area, Civil parish
Coordinates51.264°N 1.558°W
Located inWiltshire, England
See alsoKinwardstone Hundred, Wiltshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Pewsey Rural, Wiltshire, Englandrural district, 1894 - 1974
Kennet District, Wiltshire, England1974-2009
Wiltshire District, Wiltshire, England2009--
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Chute Forest is a village and civil parish in east Wiltshire, England. The parish is bordered to the east and south by the county of Hampshire. The village is about northwest of Andover and to the east of Ludgershall.

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History

The area was a large royal forest by the 13th century and continued in Crown ownership until 1639. It was then an extra-parochial area until it became a civil parish in the 19th century, and an ecclesiastical parish in 1875 after the church was built.

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