In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Winterbourne Earls like this:
WINTERBOURNE-EARLS, a parish in Amesbury district, Wilts; 2 miles SSW of Porton r. station, and 3½ NNE of Salisbury. Post town, Salisbury. Acres, 1,663. Real property, with W.-Dantsey, £3,268. Pop., 276. Houses, 60. There are two manors. The living is a vicarage, annexed to W.-Dantsey. The church was rebuilt in 1868. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Winterbourne Earls through time
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