Boyton, a parish in Wilts, on the river Willy, adjacent to the G.W.R., 1/2 a mile NW of Codford station, and 2 1/2 SE of Heytesbury. Post town, Bath; money order and telegraph office, Codford-St-Mary. The area is 3944 acres; population of the civil parish, 291; of the ecclesiastical, 293. It includes Corton township. The manor belonged in the time of Henry II. to the Giffords, and passed to the Lamberts. The mansion on it was built in 1618 by Thomas Lambert, and was afterwards occupied by Bourke Lambert, who collected here upwards of 30,000 species of plants. A chasm in the neighbourhood of the grounds, called Chapel Hole, is popularly believed to have swallowed up a church. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £302 with residence. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church dates from the latter part of the 12th century, was restored in 1860 at a cost of upwards of £2000, and contains grand monuments of the Giffords and several memorial windows.
