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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Alton Barnes like this:
ALTON-BARNES, or Alton-Berners, a parish in Devizes district, Wilts; on the Kennet and Avon canal, near Wans Dyke, 7 miles E of Devizes r. station. Post town, Pewsey under Marlborough. Acres, 1,053. Real property, £1,520. Pop., 177. Houses, 37. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £294.* Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is good.
Alton Barnes is now part of WILTSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WILTSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Alton Barnes itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Alton Barnes in Wiltshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11489
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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