Place:Bower Chalke, Wiltshire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

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Bower Chalke is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Salisbury. It is in the south of Wiltshire, about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the county boundary with Dorset and 2 miles (3.2 km) from that with Hampshire. The parish includes the hamlets of Mead End, Misselfore and Woodminton.

Bower Chalke is in the Cranborne Chase. The River Chalke, a classic chalk stream, rises in the village and joins the River Ebble at Broad Chalke, flowing into the Hampshire Avon south of Salisbury.

The Grade II* listed Church of the Holy Trinity dates from the 13th century, and Nobel Prize winning novelist William Golding is buried in the churchyard. Bower Chalke was once a chapelry of Broad Chalke.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Bower Chalke.

Included a history timeline of the parish.

Research Tips

• Victoria County History - Wiltshire - Vol 13, pp28-35 - Parish: Bower Chalke. British History Online. University of London.
• From this Ancestry page you can browse the Wiltshire parishes which have parish register transcripts online, quite often from very early dates. However, reading the early ones requires skill and patience. Transcriptions should also be in FamilySearch.
• A further collection of online source references will be found on the county page for Wiltshire.