BOYTON, a parish in the hundred of HEYTESBURY,
county of WILTS, 3 miles (S.E.) from Heytesbury, containing,
with the township of Gorton, 284 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £27. 17. 3\.,
and in the patronage of the President and Fellows of
Magdalene College, Oxford. The church is dedicated
to St. Mary.