Description
Minety or Minty, a village and a parish in Wiltshire. The village stands near the ancient forest of Bradon, 3 1/2 miles SW of the boundary with Gloucestershire, with a station on the G.W.R., 85 miles from London, and 5 1/2 ENE of Malmesbury. It has a post and money order office under Malmesbury; telegraph office at railway station. Acreage of the parish, 3778; population, 757. Minety House is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £195 with residence. Patron, the Archdeacon of Wilts. The church is Later English, with a tower, and contains a brass and monuments of the Powletts, the Pleydells, and others.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
