SOPWORTH, a parish in a detached portion of the
hundred of CHIPPENHAM, county of WILTS, 7 miles
(W. by S.) from Malmesbury, containing 222 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Wilts, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's
books at £S. 10. 5., and in the patronage of the Dake
of Beaufort. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.