Idmiston, Wiltshire

Description
Idmiston, a tithing and a parish in Wiltshire. The tithing lies near Porton station on the L. & S.W.R., 4 miles SE of Amesbury, and 6 NE by N of Salisbury. Post towni, Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Winterbourne Gunner. The parish contains also the chapelry of Porton, the tithings of Gomeldon and Shripple, and part of the tithing of Ford. Acreage, 5492; population of the civil parish, 457; of the ecclesiastical, 508. The manor belongs to the Earl of Normanton. There are several barrows, the burial-places of the chieftains of the old Celtic inhabitants of the county. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of Porton, in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £211. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The parish church is ancient, has a steeple covered with wooden shingles, was restored in 1867, and contains several monuments-one of which is to the Rev. John Bowie, who edited " Don Quixote," and was buried in the church in 1788. The church of St Nicholas, at Porton, was rebuilt of flint on a new site in 1877.