TILSHEAD, a parish in the hundred of BRANCH-and-DOLE,
county of WILTS, 4 miles (S. S. E.) from
East Lavington, containing 425 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £7. 16.,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church1
is dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket.