Dauntsey, Wiltshire

Description
Dauntsey or Dantsey, a parish in Wiltshire on the river Avon, with a station on the G.W.R., 89 miles from London, 4^ SSE of Malmesbury, and 5^ W of Wootton-Bassett. It has a post office under Chippenham; money order and telegraph office, Great Somerford. Acreage, 3260; population, 409. The manor belonged at the Conquest to Malmesbury Abbey, and passed to the Danteseys, the Straddlings, the Danverses, the Crown, and the great Earl of Peterborough. Part of the land is common. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; value, £402 with residence. The church has monuments of the Danverses and is interesting to archaeologists. The parish gave the title of Baron to the son of James II.