OVERTON, a parish partly in the hundred of
ELSTUB-and-EVERLEY, but chiefly in that of SELKLEY,
county of WILTS, 2 miles (S. by W.) from Marlborough,
containing, with the chapelry of Alton-Priors,
the township of Lockeridge, and the tything of Stowell,
900 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Wilts, and diocese of Salisbury, rated
in the king's books at £23. 0. 5., and in the patronage
of the Duke of Marlborough. The church is dedicated
to St. Michael.