Durnford, Wiltshire

Description
Durnford, a village and a parish in Wiltshire. The village stands on the river Avon, 2 1/2 miles SSW of Amesbury, 4 from Porton station on the L. & S.W.R., and 6 from Salisbury. It occupies the site of a Roman settlement, and has a post office under Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Amesbury. The parish comprises 3102 acres ; population of the civil parish, 380; of the ecclesiastical, 419. The ecclesiastical parish contains the hamlets of Normanton, Great Durnford, Netton, Salterton, Newtown, and Little Durnford. Durnford House is a seat in the neighbourhood. Ogbury Camp, on the brow of a hill near Great Durnford House, is an extensive earthwork resembling more a seat of the ancient Britons than a military station, without any fosse, and intersected by numerous small banks. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £264. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is rich Norman with curious doorways, has an Early English square tower, and contains a figured Saxon font and monuments of the Yonges; it was restored in 1883. The font has interesting Norman arches.