SOMERFORD (LITTLE), a parish in the hundred
of MALMESBURY, county of WILTS, 3 miles (S. E.)
from Malmesbury, containing 330 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and
diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at
£8. 7. 1., and in the patronage of the Earl of -Ilchester.
The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.