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Sutton Veney, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Sutton Veney, a parish in Wiltshire, 1½ mile WSW of Heytesbury station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Warminster; money order and telegaph office, Warminster. Acreage, 4111; population, 723. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £370 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1868 at a cost of £7000. There is a Congregational chapel. Greenhill House is the chief residence.

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

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyWiltshire 
Ecclesiastical parishSutton-Veny St. Leonard 
HundredWarminster 
Poor Law unionWarminster 

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Directories & Gazetteers

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