STRATTON (ST-MARGARET), a parish in the
hundred of HIGHWORTH-CRICKLADE-and-STAPLE,
county of WILTS, 2 miles (N. E. by N.) from Swindon,
containing, with the tything of Upper Stratton, 745 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Wilts, and diocese of Salisbury, rated
in the king's books at £8. 12. Sf., endowed with £200
royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Warden and
Fellows of Menton College, Oxford, on the nomination
of the Bishop of Salisbury. John Hurring, in 1720, bequeathed
lands producing a small income for teaching
poor children. An Alien priory was founded here soon»
after the Conquest, which, at the dissolution, was given
by Henry VI. to King's College, Cambridge.