A concise history of Alton Priors by John Chandler, which points out among other things
- that the Ridgeway passes ludicrously close by (check out a 1:25000 OS map),
- the reasons for there being two churches almost next to each other,
- and that the bumps in the field are probably the remains of the village which has since shrunk (not barrows, I’m afraid, as notjamesbond suggests above)