Sherston Parva or Sherston-Pinkney

SHERSTON PARVA, or Sherston-Pinkney, a parish, in the union of Malmesbury, and in a detached portion of the hundred of Chippenham, Malmesbury and Kingswood, and N. divisions of Wilts, 4¾ miles (W.) from Malmesbury; containing 155 inhabitants. The living is valued in the king's books at £3. 14. 4½.: the impropriate tithes have been commuted for £159, and there are 93 acres of impropriate glebe. The church was long since demolished, and no institution has taken place since 1640, when the patronage was in the Crown.