LINEHAM, a parish in the hundred of KINGSBRIDGE,
county of WILTS, 4 miles (S. W.) from Wootton-
Basset, containing 910 inhabitants. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and
diocese of Salisbury, endowed with £ 1400 parliamentary
grant. H. Long, Esq. was patron in 1815. The
church is dedicated to St. Michael. Ralph Broome,
in 1715, bequeathed £450, the income to be applied
in teaching thirty children. In the vicinity is a
farm-house, which occupies the site of Bradenstoke
priory, founded, about 1142, by Walter de Evreux, on
de Saresbiae, for Augustine monks, and dedicated to the
Blessed Virgin.