Burcombe, Wiltshire

Description
Burcombe, a parish in Wilts, on the river Nadder, 2 miles W of Wilton railway station. It includes the tithing of North Burcombe, and is itself sometimes called South Burcombe. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Wilton. Acreage, 1864; population of the civil parish, 330 ; of the ecclesiastical, 305. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £59 with residence. Patron, the Prior of St John's Hospital, Burcombe. The church is so old as to have traces of Saxon, and was restored and enlarged in 1860.