EVERLEY, a parish in the hundred of ELSTUB-and-EVERLEY,
county of WILTS, 4 miles (W. N. W.)
from Ludgershall, containing 316 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and diocere
of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £16. 4. 4.,
and in the patronage of Sir J. D. Astley, Bart, The
church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a chaste and elegant
edifice, erected in 1813, at the sole expense of Francis
Dugdale Astley, Esq. This was anciently a market
town, and a place of considerable note. Ina, King of
the West Saxons, had a palace here, in which he frequently
resided; and, in 1603, it was visited by James I,
About two miles to the south is the fortified camp of
Chidbury, to which there appears to have been a covered
way from Everley.