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MILTON-LILBORNE, a parish in Pewsey district, Wilts; on a head-stream of the river Avon, the Wilts and Somerset railway, and the Kennet and Avon canal, 2 miles E of Pewsey r. station. It contains the hamlet of Clinch; and its Post town is Pewsey, under Marlborough. Acres, 3,502. Real property, £4,800. Pop., 697. Houses, 153. The property is divided among a few. The manor and much of the land belong to the Marquis of Ailesbury. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £111. Patron, the Rev. J. H. Gale. The church is ancient, with a tower; and was reported in 1859 as not good. There is a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Milton Lilbourne Parish Pewsey Poor Law Union/Registration District Wiltshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Milton Lilbourne |
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