CHOLDERTON, a parish in the hundred of AMESBURY,
county of WILTS, 5 miles (E. by N.) from Amesbury,
containing 149 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury, rated
in the king's books at £11. 0. 7i-> and in the patronage
of the Provost and Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford.
The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. By deed in
1753, Anthony Cratcherode gave land for teaching children,
and for the poor of this parish.