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== Parish History == | == Parish History == | ||
OVERTON (St. Michaels), a village in Marlborough district, and a '''parish''' partly also in Pewsey district, Wiltshire. The village stands on the river Kennet, 4 miles W by S of Marlborough railway station.The '''parish''' comprises the township of West Overton and the tything of Lockeridge, in Marlborough district, and the '''chapelry''' of Alton-Priors, in Pewsey district. Acres, with Fyfield '''parish''', and with Overton-Heath and Clatford-Park.<ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=12057&amp;st=Overton Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, (1870-72)]</ref> | OVERTON (St. Michael), a '''parish''', in the union of Marlborough, partly in the hundred of Elstub and Everley, but chiefly in that of Selkley, Marlborough and Ramsbury, and N. divisions of Wilts, 3½ miles (S. by W.) from Marlborough. <ref>Lewis, Samuel A., [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51199#s1 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England''] (1848), pp. 498-500. Date accessed: 07 October 2013.</ref> | ||
<br> OVERTON (St. Michaels), a village in Marlborough district, and a '''parish''' partly also in Pewsey district, Wiltshire. The village stands on the river Kennet, 4 miles W by S of Marlborough railway station.The '''parish''' comprises the township of West Overton and the tything of Lockeridge, in Marlborough district, and the '''chapelry''' of Alton-Priors, in Pewsey district. Acres, with Fyfield '''parish''', and with Overton-Heath and Clatford-Park.<ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=12057&amp;amp;amp;amp;st=Overton Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, (1870-72)]</ref> | |||
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