UPTON-LOVELL, a parish in Warminster district, Wilts; on the river Wiley, and on the Bath and Salisbury railway, 2 miles SE of Heytesbury. It has a post-office under Bath. Acres, 1,399. Real property, £2,096. Pop., 210. Houses, 51. The manor belonged anciently to the Lovells. An ingeniously constructed bridge here spans the Wiley. There are large tumuli and other antiquities. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £325.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is good; and there is an endowed school with £15 a year.

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