sentences:  Since then, the parish of Winterbourne Earls has only changed hands twice; in 1551 it was leased to the Nicholas family, by its owners, the Bishops of Salisbury, then in 1799, the Fort family took the lease, and remained at the property until the mid-twentieth century.A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1843 at Hurdcott, immediately to the south of Winterbourne Earls.The chapel closed in 1967 and the community is served by Bourne Valley Methodist Church at Winterbourne Dauntsey.