WISHFORD (GREAT), a parish in the hundred ot
BRANCH-and-DOLE, county of WILTS, 2 miles (N.N.
W.) from Wilton, containing 372 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury,
rated in the king's books at £17 10. 7, and in
the patronage of the Earl of Pembroke. The church is
dedicated to St. Giles. Sir Richard Howe, in 1722 gave
a rent-charge of £32 in support of a school for poor
boys and girls.