Chute, Wiltshire
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 Church of St Nicholas |
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| Chute shown within Wiltshire | |
| Population | 299 (in 2011) |
| OS grid reference | SU298538 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Andover |
| Postcode district | SP11 |
| Dialling code | 01264 |
| Police | Wiltshire |
| Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | http://www.thechutes.org.uk/ |
Chute is a civil parish in west Wiltshire, England, on the border with Hampshire. It includes the main village of Upper Chute and the smaller settlements of Lower Chute, Chute Standen, Chute Cadley and Mount Cowdown. The nearest town is Andover, Hampshire, about 6 miles (10 km) to the southeast.
Conholt House and Conholt Park are in the northeast of the parish.
Evidence of Neolithic occupation includes an oval barrow at Scotspoor, in the northeast corner of the parish. The northern boundary of the parish follows a prehistoric ditch and there is a prehistoric field system on Chute Down in the southwest.Bevisbury, a small Iron Age fort, is just over the Hampshire border near Chute Cadley.
The Domesday book of 1086 recorded farmland and a mill at Standen. In the 13th century the whole area was part of Chute Forest.
Chute is a civil parish with an elected parish council. It is in the area of Wiltshire Council unitary authority. Both councils are responsible for different aspects of local government.
The nearby village of Chute Forest has its own parish council.
The Church of England parish church of Saint Nicholas is mentioned in 1320 and in Dean Chandler's register of 1405. It was almost completely rebuilt in the period 1869-72 to designs by J.L. Pearson. The old church consisted of a chancel and nave with south transept, south porch, and west timber bell turret. The walls were faced with knapped flint and supported by prominent red-brick buttresses, and the 15th-century windows were replaced by new ones in 13th-century style. A vestry was built on the north side of the chancel, and the porch and the bell turret were replaced by a new south porch below a tower and a slated spire.
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