Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PITTON

PITTON, a chapelry in Alderbury parish, Wilts; 4 miles E by N of Salisbury r. station. Post-town, Salisbury. Acres, 1, 150. Real property, with Farley, £2, 921. Rated property of P. alone, £1, 456. Pop., 396. Houses, 88. The property is all in one estate. The living is ap. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Alderbury, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is ancient. There are an alms-house-hospital for 12 persons, and a national school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Alderbury CP/AP       Wiltshire AncC
Place: Pitton

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