Description
Coulston, East, a parish in Wilts, at the north-west verge of Salisbury Plain, 5 1/2 miles ENE of Westbury station on the G.W.R., and about 6 1/4 from Melksham. Post town, Westbury; money order office, Bratton; telegraph office, Bratton. Acreage, 876; population, 103. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £202 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is old, and the chancel has been restored. Mrs Delany, the niece of Lord Lansdowne, famous for cutting flowers in paper, was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5

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