NEWTON (SOUTH), a parish in the hundred of
BRANCH-and-DOLE, county of WILTS, 2 miles (N.byW.)
from Wilton, containing, with the chapelries of Chilhampton
and Ugford, and the tythings of Burdens-Ball,
Stoford, and Wishford, 579 inhabitants. The living is
a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £12. 18. 4.,
and in the patronage of the Earl of Pembroke. The
church, dedicated to St. Andrew, has lately received an
addition of fifty-four sittings, of which forty-eight are
free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of
churches and chapels having granted £50 towards
defraying the expense.