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Like the adjacent parishes of Charlton St. Peter and Marden, Wilsford is a narrow north-south strip. The northern part, including the village, is in Pewsey Vale and the upper reaches of the River Avon. The southern part extends onto the northern edge of Salisbury Plain. Wilsford is, as it has always been, essentially concerned with farming, but it has undergone considerable change, particularly over the last hundred years and especially in the last thirty. Life was hard and work manual. Change is illustrated by poulation. In 1377 there were 77 toll tax payers.
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In 1801 the population was 224, in 1841 it was 304. In 2001 the poulation was 57. There is no longer a school, public house, post office or shop. However the chuch of St. Nicholas continues as it has done for over 800 years and is a focal point of the village
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