Alderton, a parish in Wiltshire, near Akeman Street, 9 miles NNW of Chippenham station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Chippenham ; money order and telegraph office, Badminton. Acreage, 1637 ; population, 136. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; value, about £150. Gore the antiquary, who flourished in the 17th century, was a native of Alderton, and was buried in the church.
