Langley Burrell, Wiltshire

Description
Langley Burrell, a parish, with a village, in Wiltshire, on the river Avon, and 1 1/2 mile from Chippenham station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Chippenham; money order and telegraph office, Chippenham. Acreage, 1882; population of the civil parish, 1445; of the ecclesiastical, 351. A causeway, 4 1/2 miles long with sixty-four arches, extends here and crosses the Avon. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; value, £315 with residence. The church is ancient but good, and has a tower, A chapelry called St Paul's constituted in 1855, comprises a portion of this parish and portions of the parishes of Chippenham, Hardcnhuish, and Kington St Michael. The Parish Councils Act severed the southern part of the old parish, and put it into the district of Chippenham Without.