WINTERBOURNE-MONKTON, a parish in the
hundred of SELKLEY, county of WILTS, 7 miles (W. N.
W.) from Marlborough, containing 201 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, united, in 1747, to
that of Avebury, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £ 5. The church
is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene.