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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Alvediston like this:
ALVESDISTON, or Alvediston, a parish in Tisbury district, Wilts; on an affluent of the Avon, under White sheet-hill, 4 miles SSE of Tisbury r. station, and 8 E of Shaftesbury. Post Town, Broad Chalk under Salisbury. Acres, 2,531. Real property, with Berwick-St. John and Tollard-Royal, £7,280. Pop. 267. Houses, 56. The property is not much divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £82.* Patron, the Vicar of Broad Chalk. The church is good.
Alvediston is now part of WILTSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WILTSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Alvediston itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Alvediston in Wiltshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11491
Date accessed: 22nd January 2026
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