Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHUTE FOREST

CHUTE FOREST, an extra-parochial tract in the district of Andover and county of Wilts; on the verge of the county, 5 miles NE by N of Ludgershall. Acres, 1, 930. Real property, £2, 188. Pop., 170. Houses, 33. This tract was formerly part of a forest, which extended eastward far into Hants, and northward to the skirts of Savernake.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "an extra-parochial tract"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Wiltshire AncC
Place: Chute

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