Description
Bishopstrow, a parish in Wilts, 1 3/4 mile SE of Warminster station on the G.W.R. Post town, Warminster, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 499; population of the civil parish, 270 ; of the ecclesiastical, 254. Bishopstrow House is a seat in the neighbourhood. Many Roman coins have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £151 with residence. The church is good, and has been restored. There are two large camps and barrows in the neighbourhood.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5

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