Our Parish is one of the largest in the South of England.  Situated in the south-west corner of Wiltshire, within the Diocese of Clifton, and Salisbury Catholic Deanery  it is some sixteen miles long and ten miles wide, shaped like a diamond, and covering seventeen Church of England Parishes.  It stretches from six miles west of Salisbury to the very edge of Shaftesbury.  It contains not only its Parish Church of The Sacred Heart but, also, the chapel of All Saints at Wardour Castle.  Its connections with the latter and with the Arundell family, mean that it has more history than most other parishes. (Extracted from “The Diocese of Clifton” by Rev. Dr. John Anthony Harding, The Clifton Diocesan Archivist.)