GRIMSTEAD (WEST), a parish in the hundred of ALDERBURY, county of WILTS, 5 miles (S. E. by B.) from Salisbury, containing 161 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with which the rectory of Plaitford is consolidated, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £7. 10. 2., and in the patronage of the Earl of Ilchester. The line of a canal now in progress between Christchurch and Salisbury passes through the parish.