Description

Allcannings, a tithing and a parish in Wilts. The tithing lies on the Avon Canal, 2 miles S of Wans Dyke, and 4 from Woodborough station on the G.W.R. There is a post and money order office under Devizes; telegraph office, Woodborough railway station. Acreage, 3354; population of the civil parish, 509; of the ecclesiastical, with Etchilhampton, 788. The manor house is a building of the 14th century, and is now used as a farmhouse. The living is a rectory, and was formerly a prebend, in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £800. Patron, Lord Ashburton. The church was partly built in the 17th century. The chancel was beautifully restored in 1889. St Ann's Hill (now called Tan Hill) fair for cattle and sheep is held on 6 August.