PRESHUTE, a parish in the hundred of SELKLEY,
county of WILTS, 1 mile (S. W. by W.) from Marlborough,
containing, with the tything of Clatford,' 693 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction
of the Bishop of Salisbury, rated in the king's
books at £8, and in the patronage of the Choristers
in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, on the nomination
of the Bishop. The church, dedicated to St.
George, is partly in the Norman style, and has a plain
ancient font of dark grey marble.