From Chicklade And Pertwood, A Short Parish History by E.R. Barty, M.A., Chicklade, Old Rectory, first published December 1955:
DOMESDAY
As time went on the hill sites were abandoned and villages in the valleys became centres of population. In the Domesday Book for Wiltshire (with translation by W.H. James, F.S.A., 1865), one Edwin is named as the Tenant of the Manor of Chigelic. “As Deveril is mentioned next after this small manor it may be conjectured that Chigelic is possibly Chicklade but there is no clue (in Domesday) to the Hundred in which it is situated.” Edwin was the Tenant in capite (holding land immediately from the King) as a King’s Thane. “Edwin holds Chigelic. He held it in the time of King Edward and it paid geld for one virgate and a half of land. The land which is there is a half carucate. It is worth three shillings.”
virgate – an ancient land measure.
carucate – a plough-land.