Description

Berwick-St-Leonard, a parish in Wilts, 1 mile E of Hindon, and 3 miles NNW of Tisbury station on the L. & S.W.R. Post town, Hindon, under Salisbury, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1144; population of the civil parish, 61; of the ecclesiastical, with Sedghill, 237. Remains of the old manor-house, the seat of the Howes from 1629 to 1735, where the Prince of Orange slept in 1668 on his way to London, are now part of a suite of farm buildings. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Sedghill, in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £210. Both churches have been restored.