MONKTON-FARLEY, a parish in the hundred of BRADFORD, county of WILTS, 4 miles (N.N.W.) from Bradford, containing 347 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £7. 15. 2., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. Here are some remains of a convent of Cluniac monks, founded, about 1125, as a cell to the priory of Lewes; it was dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, and at the dissolution had a revenue of £217. 0. 4.