Place:Charlton (near Brinkworth), Wiltshire, England

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Name	Charlton (near Brinkworth)
Alt names	Charlton	source: from redirect
	Charlton St John the Baptist	source: former ecclesiastical parish
	Charlton Park	source: manor in parish
	Perry Green	source: hamlet in parish
Type	Civil parish
Coordinates	51.599°N 2.056°W
Located in	Wiltshire, England
See also	Malmesbury Hundred, Wiltshire, England	hundred in which it was located
	Malmesbury Rural, Wiltshire, England	rural district, 1894 - 1974
	North Wiltshire District, Wiltshire, England	district municipality covering the area 1974-2009
	Wiltshire District, Wiltshire, England	unitary authority covering the area since 2009

Contained Places

Cemetery: St John the Baptist Church

NOTE: Charlton (near Brinkworth) is one of four places in Wiltshire identified as Charlton by Wikipedia. Every effort has been made to differentiate them here in WeRelate.

the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Charlton (near Brinkworth) is a village and civil parish in North Wiltshire, England, about 2 miles (3 km) northeast of Malmesbury and 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of the village of Brinkworth. The parish includes the hamlet of Perry Green and the Charlton Park estate. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 425.

Two Anglo Saxon charters and the Domesday Book of 1086 record land in the parish. Malmesbury Abbey held the Manor.

The oldest parts of the Church of England parish church of St John the Baptist include the north arcade, which is late 12th-century. The west tower and north chapel were added in the 13th century. Several new windows were inserted in the 15th century. The Jacobean pulpit was made in 1630, and the tower screen may be of a similar date. Inside the church is a canopied monument to Sir Henry Knyvett, who died in 1598. The church is a Grade II* listed building. The parish is now part of the Benefice of Garsdon, Lea and Cleverton, and Charlton, although the church is served by the Braydon Brook team ministry.

Charlton was a chapelry of the parish of Westport St. Mary, but A Vision of Britain through Time reports it became a separate ecclesiastical parish "early".

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Research tips

Victoria County History - Wiltshire - Vol 14, pp36-50 - Parish: Charlton. 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.

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