Description

Alton-Priors, a township and chapelry in Overton parish, Wilts, on the Kennet and Avon Canal, contiguous to Alton-Barnes, 7 miles E of Devizes. It includes the tithing of Stowell, and its post town is Pewsey; money order and telegraph office, Woodborough railway station, 2 miles distant. Acreage, 1909; population, 178. The manor belonged anciently to Winchester monastery. The living is a curacy, annexed to Overton vicarage, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church has a curious brass of 1528.