UPHAVEN, a parish in the hundred of SWANBOROUGH,
county of WILTS, 4 miles (S. W. by S.) from
Pewsey, containing 464 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £7. 16. 8., and
in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated
to St. Mary. There is a place of worship for-
Particular Baptists. A market was granted by Henry III.
to Peter de Mauley; and, in the reign of Edward I.,
Hugh de Spencer procured a charter of free warren and
two annual fairs, one of which, as well as the market, is
discontinued. A Benedictine priory, a cell to the abbey
of Fontanelle in Normandy, was founded here about
the commencement of the reign of Henry I., and, at its
suppression, was granted by Henry VI. to the monastery
of Ivy-Church, in exchange for lands, &c., in Clarendon
park.