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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bower Chalke like this:
BOWER-CHALK, a parish in Wilton district, Wilts; near Cranborne Chase, 5 miles S of Dinton r. station, and 7½ SW of Wilton. Post Town, Broad-Chalk, under Salisbury. Acres, 2,966. Real property, with BroadChalk, £9,812. Pop., 496. Houses, 104. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Broad-Chalk, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is tolerable.
Bower Chalke is now part of WILTSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WILTSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bower Chalke itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bower Chalke in Wiltshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11665
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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