KINGTON (WEST), a parish in the hundred of
CHIPPENHAM, county of WILTS, 8 miles (W.N.W.)
from Chippenham, containing 285 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and
diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at
£11. 9. 9., and in the patronage of the Bishop of
Salisbury. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Near
Ebbedown are vestiges of a small Roman camp. In
the walk to the glebe-house is a small hollow oak, a favourite
resort of Latimer, when that celebrated prelate
held the incumbency.