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.
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Porton through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Porton, in Salisbury and Wiltshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25570
Date accessed: 05th November 2024
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