WROUGHTON, a parish, with four tythings, in Highworth district, Wilts; 3¼ miles SSW of Swindon r. station. It has a post-office under Swindon. Acres, 4,546. Rated property, £11,202. Pop., 1,721. Houses, 373. The manor belongs to the Dean and Chapter of Winchester and W. W. Codrington, Esq. W. House and Salthrop Lodge are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £160.* Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is of the 11th century and good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school with £20 a year, and charities £26.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))