CHALFIELD (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of
BRADFORD, county of WILTS, 3 miles (W.) from
Melksham, containing, with the extra-parochial liberty
of Little-Chalfield-and-Cottles, 100 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £6,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of Sir H. B. Neale, Bart.
The church is dedicated to St. Catherine.