Bishopstone, a parish in Wilts, on the verge of the county, 25 miles S of Shrivenham station on the G.W.R., and 6 E of Swindon. It has a post and money order office under Shrivenham (R.S.O.), which is the telegraph office. Acreage, 3519; population, 503. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £235 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. Parts of the church date back to the 12th century. It was restored in 1882-83, and again after a fire on Good Friday, 1891, which destroyed 8 bells and the old clock, &c. A Methodist chapel was built in 1886.