Britford or Burford, a village and a parish in Wilts. The village stands adjacent to the Salisbury and Southampton Canal, 1 1/2 mile SE of Salisbury station on the G.W. and L. & S.W.R., and has a fair on 12 Aug. It has a post office under Salisbury, which is the telegraph office; money order office, East Harnham. The parish includes also the tithing of East Harnham, and the hamlet of Longford, and its post town is Salisbury. Acreage, 3107 of land and 74 of water; population of the civil parish, 918; of the ecclesiastical, 382. The manor belonged anciently to King Harold, and belongs now to the Earl of Radnor. Longford Castle, the seat of the Earl, was built about 1591 by Sir Thomas Gorges, is a curiously constructed edifice, of triangular form, with inner court, and possesses a very fine picture gallery. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £238 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury. The church is cruciform, and contains a mausoleum of the Bouveries, and a curious sculptured altar-tomb, usually, but erroneously, said to be that of the Duke of Buckingham who was beheaded by Richard III. The church was restored in 1873. East and West Harnham are united vicarage benefices, with a net value of £256 with residence. The parish contains Alderbury workhouse.
