REVISED CHIPPENHAM TEXT NOW ONLINE

For many months John Chandler has been engaged in revising and reordering the text for Chippenham borough and parish, contributed by no fewer than six researchers over as many years. The work was completed in February and has now been posted on the central VCH website (https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history/county-histories-progress/wiltshire). It replaces the sections posted there previously and combines them all into a single account of Chippenham’s history. Please take a look and send in comments. This will constitute around half of the forthcoming red book, and so is an important milestone on the road to publication. Now work has begun on editing the other parishes, and then the volume introduction, so that everything can be submitted to VCH central office for review later this year.