Winterbourne Stoke, Wiltshire

Description
Winterbourne Stoke, a parish, with a village, in Wiltshire, on Salisbury Plain, 4 miles N of Wishford station on the G.W.R., and 5 1/2 W by S of Amesbury. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Shrewton. Acreage, 3572; population, 249. There is a parish council of five members and a chairman. The manor belongs to Lord Ashburton. Many barrows and traces of an ancient camp are on the downs. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £185 with residence. Patron, Lord Ashburton. The church is an ancient building of flint and stone with a square central embattled tower.