TYTHERTON-KELLAWAYS, a tything in the parish
of BREMHILL, hundred of CHIPPENHAM, county of
WILTS, 3 miles (E. N. E.) from Chippenham. The population
is returned with the parish. This place merits
notice from the peculiar circumstances attending its origin
and progressive improvement. An individual name'd
Connicker, a native of Reading, having embraced the
original doctrines of Whitfield and Wesley, at the period
of their first promulgation, became so zealous a devotee,
that he expended his patrimonial estates in building
meeting-houses- in different parts of the country, one of
which he erected at Tytherton, and attached to it a
burying-ground, &c. Here he fixed his own residence,
and propagated his opinions with great success during
several years; but, on the schism between Wesley and
Whitfield, he joined the Moravians, and induced most of
his followers at Tytherton to do the same. Accordingly,
two cottages, adjoining each other, were purchased, and
converted into a house for the reception of the young
unmarried women of the sect. A house for young men,
on the same plan, was also attempted to be established,
but without success. In this situation, with slow advances
towards the end proposed, Tytherton settlement
continued till about thirty years ago, when the society,
having grown both more numerous and jmore wealthy,
built a new chapel and sister-house, and added to the
former a neat residence for their pastor. Since that
period, they have erected a large school-house, into
which female children of every persuasion are received
indiscriminately as boarders, for the purpose of instruction
in morality and the elements of knowledge.