DURNFORD, a parish in the hundred of AMESBURY,
though locally in the hundred of Underditch,
county of WILTS, 2 miles (S.S.W.) from Amesbury,
containing, with Little Durnford, Netton, Newtown,
and Salterton, 472 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary
of Durnford in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury,
rated in the king's books at £9. The church,
dedicated to St. Andrew, is a very ancient structure.
Here is a school endowed with about £ 12 per annum.
On the brow of a hill in this parish is an extensive
earth-work, called Ogbury camp, supposed to have been
a British settlement: it has no fosse, and is intersected
by a number of small banks in different directions.