 is lord of the manor."
"HEYWOOD, a village and ecclesiastical district in the parish and hundred of Westbury, county Wilts, 1 mile N. of Westbury, within the limits of which borough it is situated, and 22 miles N.W. of Salisbury. The inhabitants are partly engaged in agriculture and the malt trade, and partly in the woollen manufactures of Westbury. Here is a mineral spring. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Salisbury, value £100. The church is comparatively modern. The principal residence is Heywood House, built in the reign of James I., and formerly the seat of the Leys and Phippses."
"LEIGH, a township in the parish and hundred of Westbury, county Wilts, 1 mile S. of Westbury. It is supposed to be Egg-lea of the Saxon Chronicle, where Alfred the Great encamped prior to the battle of Ethandune. At Courtfield in this township was once a Saxon palace. It formerly belonged to the Cobhams and Molins."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]