Orcheston

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Orcheston is a civil parish and village in Wiltshire, England, lying on Salisbury Plain less than a mile north-west of neighbouring Shrewton. The present day village combines the two former parishes of Orcheston St Mary and Orcheston St George. The village is recorded in the Domesday Book, with the spelling Orchestone. The two civil parishes of Orcheston, based on the two Church of England parish churches of St Mary and St George, were united into a single civil parish in 1934 and into a single ecclesiastical parish in 1971. St George's Church was built in the 13th century. It has been designated as a Grade II* listed building and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.