Great Chalfield
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.jpg) All Saints Parish Church, Great Chalfield |
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| Great Chalfield shown within Wiltshire | |
| OS grid reference | ST860632 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | MELKSHAM |
| Postcode district | SN12 |
| Police | Wiltshire |
| Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
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Great Chalfield, also sometimes called by its Latin name of Chalfield Magna, formerly East Chalfield and anciently Much Chaldefield, is a small village and former civil parish in west Wiltshire, England, now part of Atworth parish. Its nearest towns are Melksham, about 3 miles (4.8 km) away to the northeast, and Bradford-on-Avon, at about the same distance to the southwest.
It contains a notable manor house, Great Chalfield Manor.
At the time of the Domesday survey (1086) it was found that the manor of Chalfield had belonged to Wallef in the time of King Edward and possessed half a mill worth eighteen pence. This suggests that the two Chalfields (Great and Little, or East and West) shared a water-mill which stood on the stream which lies between them. A corn mill was operating at Great Chalfield in 1645 while it was occupied by a Parliamentary garrison.
The 15th-century manor house, Great Chalfield Manor, is a Grade I listed building now owned by the National Trust, having been given to it in 1943, with nine acres of land and an endowment fund, by Major R. F. Fuller, the lord of the manor.
In 1676, Great Chalfield had only eighteen residents. In 1831 the population was 83. The civil parish was abolished in 1884 and its area incorporated into the new parish of Atworth.
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