WINTERSLOW, a parish, with a village, in Alderbury district, Wilts; 3½ miles SSE of Porton r. station, and 6 ENE of Salisbury. It has a post-office under Salisbury, and an inn. Acres, 4,843. Real property, £4,990. Pop., 904. Houses, 188. The manor was anciently he1d on the tenure of providing claret for the king at Clarendon palace. W. house was a residence of the Fox family, and was burned down in 1774. Many Saxon and early Norman coins, cut into halves and quarters, have been found. A lioness, which had escaped from a travelling menagerie, seized a horse of the Exeter mail, near W. inn, on a dark night of 1816. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £784.* Patron, St. John's College, Oxford. The church is good; and there are a Wesleyan chapel, national schools, and charities £53.

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