From The Official Guide, Salisbury & Wilton Rural District, Wiltshire, c.1950:
Ebbesborne Wake
Covering an area of 3,753 acres, this rather quaintly-named parish is situated eleven miles from Salisbury, nine miles from Wilton and Shaftesbury, and five miles from Tisbury Station. The name is taken from the River Ebble, which at this point is hardly more than a brook, and from the Wake family, formerly lords of the manor here, and whose arms are engraved on three of the bells in the church.
The parish church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and is a structure of stone in the Early English style, with an embattled western tower containing five bells. The Registers date from 1653. There is also a Congregational Chapel.
The parish is linked to Salisbury by a very good bus service which runs on weekdays and Sundays.