From Chicklade And Pertwood, A Short Parish History by E.R. Barty, M.A., Chicklade, Old Rectory, first published December 1955:
In the garden of “The Last Thatch’ there is an interesting carved stone showing the face of a man. It resembles a stone on the niche for holy water at Pertwood Church. Probably it was among the stone of old Chicklade Church, demolished about 1830. Doubtless some of those stones were used for building or may be in cottage gardens.
From Chicklade And Pertwood, A Short Parish History by E.R. Barty, M.A., Chicklade, Old Rectory, first published December 1955:
The Marvyn or Mervyn family were the ancient possessors of the estate from 1539 to 1710. The estate came to them from John Brother, possessor of Pertwood, whose daughter Joan, married William Fletcher. Their daughter, Margaret, married William, nephew of Walter Mervyn of Founteyne. William and Joan Fletcher seem to have owned Pertwood as early as 1460. Benett-Stanford – (W.A.M. no. CLXXXV.).
Various members of the Mervyn family were Members of Parliament. Sir John Mervyn, Kt., represented Wiltshire in Parliament in 1554 and other Members of Parliament were James Mervyn, M.P. for Wiltshire 1672; John Mervyn of Middle Temple, L.L.D., M.P., for the Borough of Hindon 1586 and Sir James Mervyn, Knt., M.P. for the Borough of Hindon 1597.
From “Chicklade And Pertwood’, A Short Parish History‘ by E.R. Barty, M.A., Chicklade, Old Rectory, first published December 1955:
Wiltshire owes much to Sir Richard Colt Hoare, historian and antiquarian, who explored the county and its ancient remains in the early nineteenth century. He left to us in his “Modern Wiltshire” (1829) and other writings, a very full, historical account of each parish.
He came to Chicklade across Berwick Down where the annual Fair was held on 6th November. November 8 is St. Leonard’s Day and the old custom was to hold a village Fair on or near the day of their patron saint.
There are among us still some who can remember Berwick Fair and its lively scenes – sales of horses and sheep, men calling their wares from their booths, gingerbread stalls and lollipops and the shouting that could he heard over the hill in Chicklade valley.
Ralph Whitlock, in his book Salisbury Plain, published in 1955, writes:
Over Cold Berwick Hill, site of a hill-top sheep fair until the edge of living memory, lies Chicklade, a waterless, downland village. Here we have left the stone country behind us and are wholly on the chalk again, but we are still within the zone of the Fonthill estates.
Kelly’s Directory 1848 – Chicklade.
Chicklade is a village in the parish of Chicklade, 16 miles west of Salisbury and 1 mile north of Hindon, in the Hundred of Dunworth and diocese of Sarum. The living is a rectory, value £230, in the gift of the Marquis of Bath; the incumbent is the Rev. John Cooke Faber, B.A. The church has been lately rebuilt in a plain style, without a chancel, and will seat 174 persons; it has a tower, with 1 bell. A Free School is about to be erected. The population, in 1841, was 109. The parish contains 1,039 acres, mostly arable land; it is in the Tisbury Union. John Candy, Esq., is the lord of the manor.
Gentry:
Mrs. Lydia Daw.
Rev. John Cooke Faber, M.A. [incumbent].
John Candy, esq., farmer.
Traders:
James Knight, farmer.
John Moody, parish clerk.
George Wigmore, farmer.
Letters are received through the Hindon office.
