Cliffe Pypard, Wiltshire

Description
Cliffe-Pypard, a parish in Wiltshire, 2 1/4 miles WNW of Broad-Hinton, and 4 S by E of Woottoii-Bassett station on the G.W.R. Its post town is Wootton-Bassett; money order and telegraph office, Wootton-Bassett. Acreage, 3272 ; population, 427. The manor, with Cliffe-Pypard House, belongs to the Goddard family. A whirlwind in September, 1856, destroyed several hundred trees on the manor-house grounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £446. The church is an edifice of the 15th century with a tower, and contains a brass of 1380.