Grittleton, Wiltshire

Description
Grittleton, a parish in Wiltshire, on the Foss Road, near the boundary with Gloucestershire, 6 miles NW of Chippenham station on the G.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Cbippenham; telegraph office, Yatton Reynell. Acreage, 2061; population, 360. The manor belonged to the Gores and the Houltons, and belongs now to the Neeld family. Grittleton House was rebuilt in 1857, and contains a rich collection of works of art. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; value, £400. The church is ancient but good. There is a Baptist chapel.