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iistovu of tfje 'f ari^l of <StocIiton, 



By the Kev. Thomas Miles, M.A, 



sHIS account of Stockton is taken from a MS. volume, very 

 carefully prepared by the late Rev. Thomas Miles, Rector 

 there : who died January, 1868. In his Preface to the volume, 

 Mr. Miles says that " it was compiled without any view of being 

 printed ; which was his excuse for introducing minute details and 

 recording small matters which would be out of place in a printed 

 book, but might be interesting to those who were connected with 

 the Parish." In order therefore to adapt the memoir to general 

 readers, much of the detail alluded to has been omitted. 



The Editors are indebted to the kindness of Mrs. Yeatman of 

 Bath, for permission to use Mr. Miles's MS. 



The parish of Stockton is situate on the south bank of the river 

 Wyly, in the broken Hundred of Elstub and Everley, in the 

 county of Wilts, The village is about five miles from Hindon, 

 and about the same distance from Heytesbury ; and is bounded 

 towards the north by the river, and Codford St. Mary ; on the east 

 side by Bapton ; west, by Sherrington ; and south, by Chilmark, 

 and Fonthill Bishop's. 



The population of the parish was in 1801, 224 : in 1811, 224 : 

 in 1821, 261 : in 1831, 274 : and in 1841, 307 : in 1851, it was 

 299 : in 1861, 288. 



Stockton is described in Domesday Book as the property of the 

 Bishop of Winchester, as Superior of the Monks of St. Swithin, 

 the Cathedral of Winchester being like some others, Conventual. 

 In a Charter of Freewarren granted to the Monks of Winchester, 

 Stockton is named among the other manors their property ; but 

 it does not appear in the account of the gifts of principal founders 

 of Winchester Cathedral, in Dugdale's Monasticon, nor does he 

 mention it in the account of the sale of Church Lands belonging 



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