Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CALSTONE-WELLINGTON, or Calstone-Willington

CALSTONE-WELLINGTON, or Calstone-Willington, a parish in Calne district, Wilts; on the Roman road from Bath, near Wans Dyke, 2½ miles SE of Calne r. station. It has a post office under Chippenham. Acres, 308. Real property, £1,945. Pop., 36. Houses, 9. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to the Cantilupes and the Zouches; and passed to the Lords Willington. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £192.* Patron, the Marquis of Lansdowne. The church was reported in 1859 to need repair.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Calstone Wellington AP/CP       Calne RegD/PLU       Wiltshire AncC
Place names: CALSTONE WELLINGTON     |     CALSTONE WELLINGTON OR CALSTONE WILLINGTON     |     CALSTONE WILLINGTON
Place: Calstone Wellington

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