Kington St Michael, Wiltshire

Description
Kington St Michael (formerly Kington Monachorum), a village and a parish in Wilts. The village stands 3 miles NW by N of Chippenham station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Chippenham; money order and telegraph office, Chippenham. The parish contains also the tithings of Kington Langley and Easton Piercy. Acreage, 2435; population of the civil parish, 438; of the ecclesiastical, 426. The manor belonged to the Saxon kings, was given to Glastonbury Abbey, and passed to the Snells and the Longs. A Benedictine nunnery, a cell to the abbey, was founded before the time of Henry II., and has left some remains at a farm. Aubrey, the antiquary, a native of Easton Piercy, says that " forty or fifty nuns might be seen in a morning spinning with their wheels and bobbins." Button, the antiquary, was a native of the village. The living is a vicarage in the dio-Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5