Place:Great Cheverell, Wiltshire, England

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Great Cheverell is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Devizes. In some sources the Latinized name of Cheverell Magna is used, especially when referring to the ecclesiastical parish.

According to the UK census of 2011, the parish had a population of 987. It is a long narrow parish bounded by Little Cheverell on the east, Erlestoke on the west and Marston on the northwest. Other boundaries are too short to be of significance.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Great Cheverell from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"CHEVERELL (Great), a parish in Devizes district, Wilts; 2½ miles W by N of Market-Lavington, and 5½ SSW of Devizes [railway] station. It has a post office under Devizes. Acres: 1,840. Real property: £3, 197. Population: 561. Houses: 121. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Heytesbury hospital. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value: £353. Patron: the Rev. R. M. Atkinson. The church was reported in 1859 to need repairs. Charities: £15."

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Great Cheverell.

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