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Bowerchalke or Bower Chalk is 7 miles SW of Wilton. Grid ref SU017228.Post code SP5 5BX.
Modern map of the area - link to Multimap
Information and links for indexes including a complete marriage index for Wiltshire are in a page on church records and indexes .
Indexes and registers of the parish church of Bowerchalke
There is a key to abbreviations and explanation of format of this list common to all parishes.
"BOWER-CHALK, a parish in the hundred of Chalk, in the county of Wilts, 7 miles to the S.W. of Wilton. It lies on the borders of Dorsetshire. The living is a vicarage united with the consolidated vicarage of Broadchalk and Alvediston, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The parish contains an area of 2,966 acres."[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
"The Bowerchalke PARISH PAPERS, Collet's Village Newspaper 1878-1924" is a book, Author Rex Sawyer, pub by Alan Sutton publishing, Brunswick Rd, Gloucester. 1989; ISBN 0-86299-579-5, in collaboration with Wiltshire County Council, Library & Museum Service. - out of print.
