Kellaways, Wiltshire

Description
Kellaways, Calloes, or Tytherton Kelways, a parish in Wilts, on the river Avon, 3 miles NE of Chippenham station on the G.W.R. Post town, Chippenham. Population, 23. The manor belongs to Earl Cowley. Freshets of the Avon once overflowed the land, and they occasioned the construction in 1474 of a paved causeway "for the good of travellers." This causeway, about 6 miles in length, extends from the top of Wick Hill in the parish of Bremhill to Chippenham Cliff, a point just on the entrance to Chippenham from Langley BurrelL It was made and kept up by funds left for that purpose by a certain Maud Heath, who appears to have had a small farm at the top of Wick Hill. A Moravian settlement was established at East Tytherton, about a mile from Tytherton Kelways, in the time of Wesley and Whitfield. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; value, £80. The church is modern.