Bishopstone, a village and a parish in Wilts. The village stands on the river Ebele, 3 1/2 miles SSW of Wilton station on the G.W.R. and L. & S.W.R., and 4 1/2 SW of Salisbury. The parish includes also the hamlets of Throope, Croncheston, Faniston, Flamston, Netton, and Pitts. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order office, Broad Chalk; telegraph office, Wilton. Acreage, 4649 ; population, 625. The living is a rectory and a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £597 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Pembroke. The church is cruciform; shows features of many styles and periods, but is mainly of the time of Edward III.; belonged to the bishops of Winchester; and contains two stone coffins, which are supposed to hold the remains of bishops.