Burbage, Wiltshire

Description
Burbage, a village and a parish in Wilts, 71 miles from London on the railway from Swindon to Andover. Saver-nake station on the G.W.R. is also in the parish. The village stands near the Kennet and Avon Canal, 6 1/2 miles SSE of Marlborough, is a straggling picturesque place, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Marlborough. Acreage of the civil parish, 4013; population, 1213; of the ecclesiastical, 1078. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £231 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is an edifice of 1854 (enlarged and renovated in 1876) with an old tower, and has two memorial windows, the one to Bishop Denison, the other to four natives who fell in the Crimean War. There is a Wesleyan chapel.