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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stockton like this:
STOCKTON, a parish in Warminster district, Wilts; 1¾ mile WNW of Wiley r. station. Post town, Heytesbury, under Bath. Acres, 2,000. Real property, £2,267. Pop., 288. Houses, 64. The manor, with S. House, belongs to H. Biggs, Esq. The Ridgeway traverses the S.; and at Stockton Wood there are vestiges of a Roman station, on the site of an ancient British town. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £436.* Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is good; and there are alms houses with £159 a year.
Stockton is now part of WILTSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WILTSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Stockton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Stockton in Wiltshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12109
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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