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Sutton-Benger (All Saints)

SUTTON-BENGER (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Chippenham, hundred of Malmesbury, Chippenham and Calne, and N. divisions of Wilts, 4½ miles (N. N. E.) from Chippenham; containing 526 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the road from Chippenham to Wootton-Bassett, and on that from Bristol to London; the river Avon and the Great Western railway also run through it. The area is 1156 acres. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £6. 3. 4.; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury. The vicarial tithes have been commuted for £300, and there is a vicarage-house, with a glebe of 38 acres, of which 18 are in this parish and 20 in Brinkworth.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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