{{Short description|Village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Use British English|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox UK place | country = England | static_image_name = Lodge Lane, Chute Forest (geograph 4392764).jpg | static_image_caption = Lodge Lane, Chute Forest | coordinates = {{coord|51.264|-1.558|type:city(200)_region:GB-WIL|display=inline,title}} | official_name = Chute Forest | population = 180 | population_ref = (in 2011)<ref>{{cite web|title=Chute Forest Census Information|url=https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Census?communityId=61|work=Wiltshire Community History|publisher=Wiltshire Council|access-date=2 November 2014}}</ref> | civil_parish = Chute Forest | unitary_england = Wiltshire | lieutenancy_england = Wiltshire | region = South West England | constituency_westminster = East Wiltshire | post_town = Andover | postcode_district = SP11 | postcode_area = SP | dial_code = 01264 | os_grid_reference = SU309517 | website = {{URL|https://www.chuteforestparishcouncil.co.uk|Parish Council}} }} '''Chute Forest''' is a village and civil parish in east Wiltshire, England. The parish is bordered to the east and south by the county of Hampshire. The village is about {{convert|5|mi|km|0}} northwest of Andover and {{convert|3|mi|km|0}} to the east of Ludgershall.
==Etymology== The name ''Chute Forest'' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, in the Latin phrase "silva que vocatur Cetum" ("the wood that is called ''Cetum''"). The name derives from the Common Brittonic word that survives today in modern Welsh as {{lang|cy|coed}} ("woodland"). Spellings with an ''e'', along the lines of ''Cet'', ''Cette'', ''Chet'' and ''Chette'' dominate the record through the thirteenth century and reflect the usual borrowing of this Brittonic word into Old English. The spelling ''Chute'', first attested for the village that takes its name from the forest in 1268 (as ''Chuth’'') and for the forest itself in 1283 (as ''Chute''), reflects dialectal variation in Old English, specifically the West-Saxon sound-change known as palatal diphthongisation.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2004 |isbn=9780521168557 |editor-last=Watts |editor-first=Victor |location=Cambridge}}, s.v. ''Upper CHUTE''.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Coates |first=Richard |title=Celtic Voices, English Places: Studies of the Celtic Impact on Place-Names in Britain |last2=Breeze |first2=Andrew |publisher=Tyas |year=2000 |isbn=1900289415 |location=Stamford}}.</ref>{{rp|302}}
== History == The area was a large royal forest by the 13th century<ref>{{cite web|website=British History Online|title=Victoria County History - Wiltshire - Vol 4 pp391-433 - Royal forests|editor-first=Elizabeth|editor-last=Crittall|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol4/pp391-433|publisher=University of London|access-date=16 April 2016}}</ref> and continued in Crown ownership until 1639. It was then an extra-parochial area until it became a civil parish in the 19th century, and an ecclesiastical parish in 1875 after the church was built.<ref name="vch">{{cite web|website=British History Online|title=Victoria County History - Wiltshire - Vol 16 - Kinwardstone Hundred - Chute Forest|editor-first=D.A.|editor-last=Crowley|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol16/pp120-126|publisher=University of London|access-date=15 April 2016}}</ref>
== The Chute Hoard == A hoard of Iron Age coins found in the northeast in 1927 (with further coins found in 1986 and 1994) is the only evidence of prehistoric activity in the parish. The coins are from the 1st century BC. The British Museum holds 36 coins<ref>{{cite web|title=Search result: Chute Forest|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?place=75432|access-date=15 April 2016}}</ref> while the Wiltshire Museum at Devizes has others, together with the hollow flint nodule in which they were found.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Cunnington|first1=B. Howard|title=A Hoard of British Coins found at Chute|journal=Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural History Magazine|date=December 1929|volume=44|pages=236–239|url=https://archive.org/details/wiltshirearchaeo441927|access-date=15 April 2016}}</ref>
== Chute Lodge == '''Chute Lodge''', in the centre of the parish, is a country house built in red brick in 1768 by Sir Robert Taylor, on or near the site of an earlier house. In 1988 the house was designated as Grade I listed.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1364573|desc=Chute Lodge|access-date=15 April 2016}}</ref>
==Parish church== {{Main|St Mary's Church, Chute Forest}} St Mary's Church, 600 metres north of Chute Lodge, was built between 1870 and 1871 to designs by J.L. Pearson and consecrated in 1875.<ref name="vch" /> It has been designated as a Grade II* listed building<ref>{{National Heritage List for England |num=1364574 |desc=Church of St Mary |access-date=12 October 2023 |fewer-links=yes}}</ref> and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.<ref name="cct">{{cite web|title=St Mary, Chute Forest|url=http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/St-Marys-Church-Chute-Forest-Wiltshire/|publisher=Churches Conservation Trust|access-date=4 October 2010}}</ref>
==Local government== Chute Forest is a civil parish with an elected parish council. It is in the area of Wiltshire Council unitary authority, which is responsible for almost all significant local government functions.
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==External links== * [https://www.chuteforestparishcouncil.co.uk Chute Forest Parish Council] * [https://www.thechutes.co.uk/ The Chutes community website] * {{cite web|website=Wiltshire Community History|title=Chute Forest|url=https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Community/Index/61|publisher=Wiltshire Council|access-date=15 April 2023}} {{Commons category-inline}}
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