Donhead St Mary, Wiltshire

Description
Donhead St Mary, a village and a parish in Wilts. The village stands on the river Nadder, half a mile NE of Don-head St Andrew village, and 2- miles SE of Semley station on the L. & S.W.R. The parish includes also the tithings of Charlton, Dognol, and Haystonc. Post town, Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Donhead St Andrew. Acreage, 5227 ; population of the civil parish, 1207 ; of the ecclesiastical, 1232. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Charlton, in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £535 with residence. Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is old but good, and has a pinnacled tower; it was thoroughly restored in 1885. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels.