Broad Chalke, sometimes spelled Broadchalke (including by Wiltshire Council), Broad Chalk or Broadchalk, is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 8 miles west of the city of Salisbury. The 2001 Census recorded a parish population of 652 but this has now risen to around 850. This civil parish includes the neighbourhoods Knapp, Mount Sorrel, Knighton and Stoke Farthing.
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