ROLLSTONE, a parish in Amesbury district, Wilts; on Salisbury plain, 5½ miles W by N of Amesbury, and 6¼ N E of Wiley r. station. Post-town, Shrewton, under Devizes. Acres, 836. Real property, with Shrewton and Maddington, £7, 295. Pop. of R. alone, 52. Houses, 10. The manor belongs to W. A. Heathcote, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £150. Patron, the Lord Chancellor The church is ancient, and was recently restored.

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