UPTON-LOVELL, a parish in the hundred of
HEYTESBURY, county of WILTS, 2 miles (S. E. by E.)
from -Heytesbury, containing 230 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £17- 18. 1 !.»
and in the patronage of the Crown. On Upton-Lorell
down, about two miles north of Heytesbury, is a single
intrenchment, called Knock Castle, including about two
acres. On the summit of a hill, to the north-west of
Elder-Valley, is a large tumulus, called Bowls Barrow,
measuring one hundred and fifty feet in length, ninetyfour
in breadth, and ten and a half in height, which
has been found to contain fourteen human skeletons.
There is also, in the neighbourhood of Knook Castle,
and near the north bank of the Wily, another large
barrow, which, from the number of gold ornaments
discovered in it, has been called Golden Barrow.