BROAD-CHALK, a parish in the hundred of CHALK,
county of WILTS, 5 miles (S. W. by S.) from Wilton,
containing 706 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, consolidated with that of Alvediston, and
united to the vicarage of Bower-Chalk, in the archdeaconry
and diocese'of Salisbury, rated in the king's
books at £27. 14., and in the patronage of the Provost
and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge. The church
is dedicated to All Saints. Here are several vestiges of
antiquity, the principal of which are, an encampment
including nearly six acres, and a barrow called Gawen's
Barrow.