South Newton, Wiltshire

Description
Newton, South, a village and a parish in Wiltshire. The village stands on the river Wiley, 1 mile SSE of Wishford station on the G.W.R., and 2 1/2 miles N by W of Wilton. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Wilton. Acreage of the civil parish, 3129; population, 546; of the ecclesiastical, 603. The Earl of Pembroke is lord of the manor. The Wilton Union Workhouse is in this parish, and has a very handsome chapel attached for the use of the inmates. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £120 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Pembroke. The church was variously Norman, Transition Norman, Early English, and Perpendicular ; went into a ruinous condition; was rebuilt throughout the N side in the Early English style in 1862 ; was restored throughout the S side, with preservation of the original features, in the same year; has a tower and a S porch, then built; and retains an old three-light E window filled with stained glass.