CHUTE, a parish in the hundred of KINWARDSTONE,
county of WILTS, 3 miles (N.E.) from Ludgershall,
containing 489 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary
of Chute and Chisenbury in the Cathedral Church
of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £11. The
church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. Jeremy Corderoy,
a divine of some celebrity in the seventeenth century,
was born here: there is a small endowment for the
instruction of children.