Cholderton and Related Topics

River Bourne, Wiltshire

River in the English county of Wiltshire, a tributary of the Salisbury Avon.

As it continues south the river passes the Bourne Valley villages: Cholderton, Newton Tony, Allington, Boscombe, Idmiston, Porton, Gomeldon, Winterbourne Gunner, Winterbourne Dauntsey, Winterbourne Earls and Hurdcott.

Amesbury

Town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.

For the Amesbury Community Area the mid-2011 population was estimated to be 33,660 (this is a wide area stretching to Tilshead, Larkhill and Figheldean in the north; Cholderton in the east; the Winterbournes, the Woodfords and Great Wishford in the south; and Wylye in the west).

Part of Stonehenge, with the A303 in the background

A303 road

Trunk road in southern England, running between Basingstoke in Hampshire and Honiton in Devon via Stonehenge.

The western end of the A303 is a lower standard of road through the Blackdown Hills

The A303 near Stonehenge c.1930. Sign reads "Fork left for Exeter". The houses and AA phone box have since been demolished. The road to the right was the A344.

Parts of the A303 were upgraded to dual carriageway throughout the late 20th century.

Traffic and congestion is a regular problem along the A303, particularly near Stonehenge.

After years of deliberation, the A344 junction with the A303 by Stonehenge was closed and returned to nature.

Tom Fort drove the length of the A303 in a Morris Traveller, and his account was turned into a book and television documentary

A convoy of trucks managed to break through a block at Cholderton, leading to increased violence.

James Fraser (bishop)

Reforming Anglican bishop of Manchester, England.

Grade II listed statue by Thomas Woolner in Albert Square, Manchester

After some parochial work in Oxford, he was ordained a priest in 1847 before becoming rector of Cholderton, Wiltshire.

Keble College, Oxford, founded in 1870, was named after John Keble, a Tractarian, by the influence of Edward Pusey, another Tractarian

Thomas Mozley

English clergyman and writer associated with the Oxford Movement.

He asked to leave four years later and in 1836 became rector of Cholderton, Wiltshire.

Henry Stephens (Conservative politician)

English businessman and Conservative Party politician.

He owned an estate in Cholderton, Wiltshire, where he set up the Cholderton and District Water Company in 1904.

Eight exclaves of highly anomalous Cowley, all in Hillingdon, then in Middlesex.

William Noyes (priest)

The Revd.

William Noyes (1568–1622), Rector of Cholderton, Wiltshire, was an Anglican clergyman of Puritan teachings.

Cholderton and District Water Company

Private water supplier, serving an area on the border of Hampshire and Wiltshire in the south of England.

It supplies about 2,500 people over an area of around 21 km2 in the parishes of Cholderton and Bulford in Wiltshire, and Shipton Bellinger, Thruxton, Amport and Quarley in Hampshire and is a private limited company with company number 357098.

Jesus represented as the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei), a common practice in Western Christianity

Frank McGowan (priest)

Anglican priest: the Archdeacon of Sarum from 1951 until his death on 21 February 1968.

He was a curate at St Michael and All Angels, Bournemouth before serving incumbencies at St Mark's, Birmingham and then St Nicholas, Cholderton until his archdeacon's appointment.

"The Washington Schoolmaster" a cartoon of 1902 from Chicago

Christopher Hollis

British schoolmaster, university teacher, author and Conservative politician.

In 1929, Hollis married Madeleine King, daughter of the Rev. Richard King, Rector of Cholderton, and herself also a Roman Catholic convert, and they had one daughter and three sons, including Crispian Hollis, Bishop of Portsmouth.