BARWICK-BASSETT, a parish in the hundred of
CALNE, county of WILTS, 1\ miles (E. N. E.) from
Calne, containing 162 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy with the vicarage of Calne, annexed to
the Treasurership in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury,
in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and diocese of Salisbury.
The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. Henry Webb,
in 1775, endowed a school with about £ 13 per annum,
for the instruction of poor children.