Stockton, Wiltshire  Stockton is a small village and civil parish in the Wylye Valley in Wiltshire, England, about southeast of Warminster. The parish includes the hamlet of Bapton. The village lies south of the A36 Warminster-Salisbury road and the River Wylye, on the minor road which follows the right bank of the river. The larger village of Codford is about one mile to the northwest. When the civil parish of Fisherton Delamere was extinguished in 1934, the portion south of the Wylye (1,174 acres) was transferred to Stockton. This transfer included Bapton and Fisherton Mill, in the village of Fisherton Delamere. Stockton also has two cottages some three miles from the main village street at a remote spot called Great Bottom. Evidence of Neolithic presence includes a long barrow on Stockton Down. From the late Iron Age there was a settlement on a ridge in Stockton Wood, in the south of the present parish, which continued to be occupied in the Romano-British period until the 4th century. Now known as Stockton Earthworks, the site of about 70 hectares has been the subject of several archaeological investigations which produced many finds. Stockton's boundaries were fixed by 901. The Domesday survey of 1086 recorded a settlement at "Stottune" with 13 households, and land held by the Bishop of Winchester. Soon after the Dissolution, in 1547 the manor was granted to William Herbert, later 1st Earl of Pembroke. In 1585 his son sold the manor to John Topp, a London merchant tailor whose father and grandfather were yeomen of Stockton; the Topps retained ownership until the mid-18th century. Later owners of parts of the estate included Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs (1845–1922), Bishop successively of Southwark, Worcester and Coventry. There were 140 poll-tax payers in 1377. The population of the parish peaked in the mid-19th century, with 307 recorded at the 1841 census. Numbers declined steadily to a low of 177 in 1931, and by 2011 had only recovered to 204. A church at Stockton is first recorded in the 12th century. The present parish church, built of ashlar and some flint, is dedicated to St John the Baptist. Two bays of the arcades, with cylindrical piers, survive from the 12th century and the lower part of the west tower is early 13th; the arcades were extended east by one bay in the 14th century.