BUTTERMERE, a parish in the hundred of KINWARDSTONE, county of WILTS, 5 miles (S.) from Hunr gerford, containing 136 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the .archdeaconry of Wilts, and diocese .of Salisbury," rated in the king's books at £ 10, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Winchester. The church is dedicated to St. James.