Laverstock, Wiltshire

Description
Laverstock, a village and a parish in Wilts. The village stands on the Bourn river, 1 1/2 mile NE of Salisbury station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Salisbury. Its name signifies " the village of the lark." The parish includes part of Ford tithing, and comprises 1620 acres; population of the civil parish, 420; of the ecclesiastical, 465. The manor belonged once to the Good Duke Humphrey, and belongs now to the Wyndham family. Laverstock House was formerly the seat of the Wyndham family, but is now a private lunatic asylum, with accommodation for upwards of seventy patients. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury, and is annexed to the commonalty of the Vicars Choral of Salisbury. The church is modern, was built at a cost of £2350, has a bell-turret, and consists of flint with stone dressings. Part of the previous church still stands, and contains monuments of the Bathursts.