Beechingstoke, a parish in Wilts, on the river Avon, 2 miles S of the Kennet and Avon Canal, and 1 mile from Woodborough station on the G.W.R. Pewsey is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Woodborough. Acreage, 891; population, 161. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £251.