MANNINGFORD-ABBOTS, a parish in the hundred
of SWANBOROUGH, county of WILTS, 1 mile (W.
S. W.) from Pewsey, containing 159 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and
diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at
£9 10. 2., and in the patronage of Sir J. D.Astley,
Bart. The river Avon runs through the parish.