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Winterbourne Stoke

"WINTERBOURNE-STOKE, a parish, with a village, in Amesbury district, Wilts; on Salisbury plain, 4 miles N of Wishford r. station, and 5½ W by S of Amesbury. It has a post-office under Salisbury. Acres, 3,419. Real property, £3,245. Pop., 383. Houses, 70. The manor belongs to Lord Ashburton. Many barrows and traces of an ancient camp are on the downs. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £172.* Patron, Lord Ashburton. The chancel of the church was recently rebuilt, and the rest repaired."

This is how the village was described by John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales in 1870-72.

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