FIGHELDEAN, a parish in the hundred of AMESBURY, county of WILTS, 4 miles (N.) from Amesbury, containing 437 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage with a sinecure rectory, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Treasurer m. the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £ 37. The church is dedicated to St. Michael.