Manningford Bruce, Wiltshire

Description
Manningford Bruce, a parish in Wiltshire, on the river Avon, 2 miles SW of Pewsey station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Marlborongh; money order and telegraph office, Upavon. Acreage, 1113; population, 250. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £190 with residence. The church is Norman, has a circular E end, and contains a monument to Mary Lane, who assisted in the escape of Charles II. at Worcester; the building was thoroughly restored in 1882.

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