Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire

Description
Ashton-Keynes, a parish in Wiltshire, on an affluent of the Thames, with a station on the Midland and South Western junction railway, 88 miles from London, and 4 W of Cricklade. It includes the chapelry of Leigh, and has a post office under Cricklade. Acreage, 2810; population of the civil parish, 925; of the ecclesiastical, 1227. Cove House is the principal residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £210. The church is good, and was thoroughly restored in 1876-77. There are two dissenting chapels.