WINTERBOURNE-BASSETT, a parish in the hundred- of SELKLEY, county of WILTS, 7i miles (N. W.) from Marlborough, containing 291 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £18. 9. 7., and in the patronage of the President and Fellows of Magdalene College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Catherine. Among various other Druidical remains are, a double circle of rude stones, a barrow surrounded with large stones, and the supposed site of houses once occupied by archdruids.