a market-town in the hundred of the same name, in the county of Wilts, 77 miles from London, and 7 from Salisbury. It is situated in a narrow valley on the river Avon, on Salisbury plain. It is an ill-built town, but contains the beautiful house built by Inigo Jones for the Duke of Queensberry. At Milston, in this neighbourhood, Addison was born. Near the town stands the druidical monument of Stonehenge. Population in 1851, 1172.