OGBOURN (ST-ANDREW), a parish in the hundred of SELKLEY, county of WILTS, 2 miles (N.) from Marlborough, containing 415 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, with Temple Rockley, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Dean, and Canons of Windsor, rated in the king's books at £15. 2. 11. At Rockley the knights of St. John of Jerusalem had formerly a preceptory: there was also a chapel of ease, dedicated to St. Leonard, but it has been long demolished. In the neighbourhood are several mineral springs. The remains of Barberry Castle, a large British encampment, may still be traced; they are partly in this parish, but chiefly in that of Wroughton.

OGBOURN (ST-GEORGE), a parish in the hundred of SELKLEY, county of WILTS, 3 miles (N.) from Marlborough, containing 493 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £14. 5. 10., and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Windsor. A priory of Benedictine monks, subordinate to the abbey of Bec-Herlowyn in Normandy, was founded here about 1149, and became the richest and principal cell to that house in England. In 556, a most sanguinary battle between the Britons and the West Saxons was fought here, which lasted a whole day, and ended in the total rout of the Britons, and the capture of their neighbouring fortress, Barberry Castle, in the vicinity of which numerous barrows are still visible.