Hillmarton, Wiltshire

Description
Hillmarton, a village and a parish in Wiltshire. The village stands 3 miles NNE of Calne station on the G.W.R., and 7 SW by W of Wootton Bassett, and has a post office under Calne; money order and telegraph office, Calne. The parish includes also the hamlets of Catcomb, Beversbrook, Goatacre, and Cleveancy. Acreage, 5311; population of the civil parish, 810; of the ecclesiastical, 701. The manor belongs to the Poynder family. Brick clay occurs, and building stone is quarried. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £260. Patron, the Crown. The church is Later English, and has been restored. It contains an old chained Bible, with wooden binding. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels, also a reading-room. Five almshouses were erected and endowed by the late William Poynder in 1877.