Brinkworth, Wiltshire

Description
Brinkworth, a village and a parish in Wilts. The village stands on a head-stream of the Avon, 3 1/2 miles WNW of Wootton-Basset station on the G.W.R., and 5 1/2 ESE of Malmesbury, and it has a post and money order office under Chippenham; telegraph office, Wootton-Bassett. The parish includes also the tithing of Grittenham. Acreage, 6059; population of the civil parish, 1185; of the ecclesiastical, 1176. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £900. Patron, Pembroke College, Oxford. The church is Early English, with a square tower, and there are Congregational and Methodist chapels, and a chapel of ease, built in 1889. Crisp the Antinomian was rector.