Stratford St. Anthony or Tony (St. Mary)
STRATFORD ST. ANTHONY or TONY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Alderbury, hundred of Cawden and Cadworth, Salisbury and Amesbury, and S. divisions of Wilts, 4 miles (S. W. by W.) from Salisbury; containing 156 inhabitants. This parish, which took its affix from the family of Tony, who formerly possessed it, is situated about a mile west of the road from Salisbury to Blandford, Dorchester, and Weymouth; and comprises 1579a. 1r. 9p. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £12, and in the gift of Corpus Christi College, Oxford: the tithes have been partly commuted for 47a. 3r. 18p. of land, and partly for a rent-charge of £242. John Bampton, founder of the celebrated Bampton Lectures in the university of Oxford, and canon residentiary of Sarum, was rector of the parish.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.