Manningford Abbots, Wiltshire

Description
Manningford Abbots, a parish in Wiltshire, on the river Avon, 2 miles SW of Pewsey station on the G.W.R. Post town, Pewsey, under Marlborough. Acreage, 931; population, 121. The manor belonged to Llanthony Abbey, and was given at the dissolution to Protector Somerset. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £275. The church was rebuilt in 1872, and is a stone building in the Early English style.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5