WILCOT, a parish, in the hundred of SWANBOROUGH,
county of WILTS, 1 mile (w.N.W.) from Pewsey,
containing, with the chapelry of Draycot-Foliatt;
and the tythings of Pare and Stowel, 695 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Wilts, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the
king's books at £6. 17., endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of Lieut.-Col. George Wroughton Wroughton.
The church is dedicated to the Holy Cross. The Rennet
and Avon canal passes through the parish. The
manor-house is said to havebeen anciently, a monastery,
of which there are no further particulars.