Cherhill, Wiltshire

Description
Cherhill, a parish in Wilts, near Wans Dyke, 2 1/2 miles E by S of Calne station on the G.W.K., and 7 NNE of Devizes. It has a post office under Calne. Acreage, 1904; population of the civil parish, 277 ; of the ecclesiastical, 349. The area of the ecclesiastical parish was enlarged in 1879, by the addition of a portion of Calne parish. An ancient square camp with double works, called Oldbury, is on the summit of a chalk hill, and the figure of a horse, 157 feet long, cut out of the turf about 1780, and visible for many miles, is on the side of the same hill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury ; net value, £'250 with residence. The church is old but very good. Cheringes. See CHARING.