Upavon, Wiltshire

Description
Upavon, a parish, with a village, in Wiltshire, on the river Avon, 4 miles from Pewsey station on the G.W.R., and 9 ESE of Devizes. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Pewsey. Acreage, 3352; population, 471. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. A Benedictine priory, a cell to Fontanelle Abbey in France, was founded here in the time of Henry I., and was given at the suppression of alien monasteries to Ivy-church Priory. Upavon Hill has traces of a small ancient camp called Catterley. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £98 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style, has been well restored, and is very interesting. There is a small Baptist chapel.