Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DITCHAMPTON

DITCHAMPTON, a tything in Wilton and Burcombe parishes, Wilts; on the river Wyley and the Salisbury and Trowbridge railway, adjacent to Wilton. Pop., 556. It formerly ranked as a parish; and it still ranks as a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Wilton, in the diocese of Salisbury; but it has no church.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a tything"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Wiltshire AncC
Place: Ditchampton

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