The parish was described as follows in The National Gazetteer (1868): WILCOT, a parish in the hundred of Swanborough, county Wilts, 6 miles S.W. of Marlborough, 10 E. of Devizes, and 1½ mile N.W. of Pewsey.
There is a 17th-century legend that Wilcot Vicarage was haunted by the incessant sound of a tolling bell.