Berwick St John, Wiltshire

Description
Berwick-St-John, a parish in Wilts, at the source of the Ebell river, under White Sheet Hills, near Cranborne Chase, 6 miles S of Tisbury station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5 1/2 E by S of Shaftesbury. Acreage, 4569; population of civil parish, 428; of ecclesiastical, 387. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Donhead St Andrew. Wilklebury Camp, or Vespasian's Camp, on a lofty ridge in the SW, is an entrenchment of 12 1/2 acres, engirt by a single ditch and by a rampart 39 feet high, and commands a very extensive view. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £384 with residence. Patron, New College, Oxford, The church is a cruciform structure of the time of Henry VII., has a low, square, central, ornamented tower; was restored in 1861-62, and contains two ancient effigies of crusaders, and monuments of the Grove family and others. There are Wesleyan and Baptist chapels.