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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Porton like this:
PORTON, a chapelry in Idmiston parish, Wilts; on the Roman road to Salisbury, on the Basingstoke and Salisbury railway, and on an affluent of the river Avon, 5 miles N E of Salisbury. It has a station on the railway, and its post town is Salisbury. Pop., 176. Houses, 40. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Idmiston.
Porton is now part of WILTSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WILTSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Porton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Porton in Wiltshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25570
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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