Chittoe
"CHITTOE, (or Chitway), a tything in the parish of Bishop's Cannings, in the county of Wilts, 5 miles N.W. of Devizes, its post town and railway station, and the same distance from Chippenham. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Salisbury, value £90, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a neat modern edifice in the early English style of architecture. The Primitive Methodists have a chapel, and there are National schools for both sexes."[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Note:
Chittoe was part of the parish of Bishops Cannings until 1946.
Cemeteries
- St Mary, Chittoe Heath, Church of England
- Chittoe Heath Methodist Chapel, Chittoe Heath, Methodist
Church Records
- St Mary, Chittoe Heath, Church of England
- St Nicholas, Back Lane, Church of England, Sandy Lane
- Chittoe Heath Methodist Chapel, Chittoe Heath, Methodist
- Providence Baptist Chapel, Other, Sandy Lane
- St Mary the Virgin and St Nicholas, Other, Sandy Lane
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Indexes and registers of the parish church of Chittoe, St Mary:
(for earlier entries see Bishops Cannings, Bromham, Calne and Chippenham)- WSRO registers: Chr 1846-1912, Mar 1846-1978
- IGI Chr 1846-1875 Batch C054331, Mar 1846-1880 and some to 1884 Batch M054331
- Wiltshire Index Service Burials 1846-1858
Gazetteers
- A transcription of the section for Chittoe from
the National Gazetteer (1868).
- The entry for Chittoe from
A Vision of Britain through time.
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Maps
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Population
Population was 220 in 1831, ?? in 1951.