STOCKTON, a parish forming a detached portion of the hundred of ELSTUB-and-EVERLEY, county of WILTS, 6 miles (N.E.) from Hindon, containing 267 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £18. 2. 1., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Winchester. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.