Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PATNEY

PATNEY, a parish in Devizes district, Wilts; on the river Avon, and on the Mid-Wilts railway, 3 miles W by S of Woodborough r. station, and 4½ E S E of Devizes Post-town, Devizes. Acres, 830. Real property, £1, 532. Pop., 154. Houses, 27. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Lord Radnor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £225.* Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is ancient but good, and has a wooden spire. There is a national school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Patney AP/CP       Devizes RegD/PLU       Wiltshire AncC
Place: Patney

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