OGBOURN (ST-GEORGE), a parish in the hundred of SELKLEY, county of WILTS, 3 miles (N.) from Marlborough, containing 493 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £14. 5. 10., and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Windsor. A priory of Benedictine monks, subordinate to the abbey of Bec-Herlowyn in Normandy, was founded here about 1149, and became the richest and principal cell to that house in England. In 556, a most sanguinary battle between the Britons and the West Saxons was fought here, which lasted a whole day, and ended in the total rout of the Britons, and the capture of their neighbouring fortress, Barberry Castle, in the vicinity of which numerous barrows are still visible.