HANNINGTON, a parish in the hundred of HIGHWORTH-CRICKLADE-and-STAPLE, county of WILTS, 1 mile (W. N. W.) from Highworth, containing 412 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £7. 0. 10., and in the patronage of Roger Montgomery, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.