Baverstock, a parish in Wilts, on the river Nadder, 2 miles from Dinton station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5 W of Wilton. Post town, Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Dinton. It includes the hamlet of Hurdcott. Acreage, 836; population of the civil parish, 64; of the ecclesiastical, 131. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £220 with residence. The church is good, and was restored in 1845, and again in 1892.