five tubular bells, hung in 1903. A chapelry district was assigned to the new church in the year of its consecration, 1844, made from the southern part of Great Bedwyn parish. The district boundary was drawn along the canal in the north-west and through Wilton in the north-east, thus including West Grafton, Marten and Wexcombe. Today the parish is within the area of the Savernake Team, a group of twelve parishes centred on Great Bedwyn. Others A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built at Wilton in 1811, extended with a schoolroom in 1843 and improved in the 1860s. It closed in 1994 and is in residential use. Primitive Methodist chapels were built at West Grafton by 1874 and at Wexcombe in the 1880s. By the 1960s, both were in residential use. Local government The civil parish elects a parish council. It is in the area of Wiltshire Council unitary authority, which performs all significant local government functions. Amenities and attractions East Grafton has village hall, the Coronation Hall, built in 1937 and renovated in 2009. There is no school in the parish. A National School was opened at East Grafton in 1846 and improved in the 20th century; it closed in 2011 owing to falling pupil numbers. Julian Orbach describes Wilton as "a pretty hamlet of thatched houses in timber frame and brick". It has a pub, The Swan. On high ground above Wilton is a working 19th-century flour mill, Wilton Windmill. Crofton Pumping Station, which supplies the Kennet and Avon Canal and has a 200-year-old beam engine, is just beyond the northern boundary of the parish. Its reservoir, Wilton Water, is a nature reserve. References External links Grafton Parish Council Civil parishes in Wiltshire