From The Modern Encyclopedia, published in the early 1930s:
Wilton. Borough of Wiltshire. On the river Wylye, it is 2½ m. from Salisbury. The church is a Romanesque building. Wilton House, seat of the earl of Pembroke, is famous for its association with Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, and other Elizabethans, and for its collection of pictures and works of art. Wilton gave its name to a kind of carpet which is now made elsewhere. Population (1931) 2,193.