Kelly’s Directory 1880 – Winterbourne Stoke
Winterbourne Stoke is a township, parish and village, in the Southern division of the county, union of Amesbury, hundred of Branch and Dole, Salisbury county court district, rural deanery of Wylye first portion, Salisbury archdeaconry and diocese, 4 miles from Wishford station on the Great Western railway, 5 miles west from Amesbury, and 9 north from Salisbury. The church of St. Peter is an ancient structure, in the Early English style: it consists of nave, chancel, south transept, and square central tower and 4 bells: there are two fine Norman doorways to the nave: the arch into the south transept is of pure Early English detail: in the chancel is a good piscina and credence, of Early Decorated character. The register dates from 1558. The living is a vicarage, value £280, with residence, in the gift of Lord Ashburton, and held by the Rev. Joseph Henry Maclean. Lord Ashburton is lord of the manor and the chief landowner. The soil is light loam and chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 3,419 acres; rateable value, £2,865; in 1871 the population was 293. The Conegarth (or Coneygore) is three quarters of a mile north. There are many barrows and earthworks, among which is Long Barrow.
Parish Clerk, Robert Eyears.
Post Office – Harry Dyer, receiver. Letters arrive from Salisbury at 9.15 a.m. and from the West of England at 9.15 a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Amesbury.
Here is a National school, under Government superintendence; Miss A.M. Legge, mistress.
Rev. Joseph Henry Maclean (Vicar).
Frederick Boyce, farmer, Manor House.
Henry Dyer, blacksmith, grocer and post office.
Frank Grant, carrier and farmer.
Henry John Smith, farmer, Hill Farm.
Thomas Tucker, farmer.