Woodford, Wiltshire

Description
Woodford, a parish in Wiltshire, on the river Avon, 3 miles E by N of Wishford station on the G.W.R., and 4 1/2 NNW of Salisbury. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Salisbury. Acreage, 2796; population of the civil parish, 427; of the ecclesiastical, 585. The parish consists of three villages, Middle, Upper, and Lower Woodford. Heale House in this parish gave refuge to Charles II. after the battle of Worcester. A palace of the Bishops of Salisbury was here. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Wilsford. The church was rebuilt in 1845, and is an edifice of flint and stone.