WILY, a parish in the hundred of BRANCH-and-DOLE,
county of WILTS, 7 miles (E. N.B.) from Hindon,
containing, with the tything of Deptford, 466 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at
£21. 14. 2., and in the patronage of the Earl of Pembroke.
The church is dedicated to St. Mary. About
one mile from the village is a large British encampment,
called Badbury-Rings, or Wily Gamp, which occupies
a point of down projecting from the principal
ridge, and encloses an area of more than seventeen
acres.