Tidworth, North (Holy Trinity)

TIDWORTH, NORTH (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Andover, hundred of Amesbury, Everley and Pewsey, and S. divisions of Wilts, 2½ miles (S. W. by W.) from Ludgershall; containing 417 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £11. 17. 1., and in the patronage of the Crown: the incumbent's tithes have been commuted for £324; a sum of £30 is paid to the Dean and Chapter of Winchester, and the glebe contains 14 acres. An almshouse was endowed with a rent-charge of £21 by Dr. Thomas Price, in 1689. North-west of the village, on the summit of an isolated hill, is the large earthwork called Chidbury Camp, in form resembling a heart. Robert Maton, a celebrated divine, was born here about 1607.