Little Bedwin, Wiltshire

Description
Bedwin, or Bedwyn, Little, a parish in Wilts, on the Kennet and Avon Canal, near Wans Dyke, 1 1/4 mile NE of Bedwin station on the G.W.R., and 3 1/2 SW by S of Hunger-ford. It includes the hamlet of Chisbury, and has a post office under Hungerford; money order and telegraph office, Great Bedwyn. Acreage, 4343; population of the civil parish, 487; of the ecclesiastical, 313. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £260. Patron, the Marquis of Ailesbury. The church is ancient, partly Norman, and built of flint; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower; and contains the tomb of a Hungerford.