Market Lavington

Market Lavington

Village centre
Market Lavington
Market Lavington shown within Wiltshire
Population 2,213 (in 2011)[1]
OS grid reference SU014541
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town DEVIZES
Postcode district SN10
Dialling code 01380
Police Wiltshire
Fire Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament
Website www.marketlavington.org.uk

Market Lavington is a civil parish and large village with a population of about 2,200 on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, 5 miles (8.0 km) south of the market town of Devizes. The parish includes the hamlets of Northbrook, Lavington Sands and Fiddington Sands.

Status

Market Lavington was formerly considered to be a town and received a Royal Charter to hold a weekly market in the year 1254.[2]

The civil parish elects a parish council.[3] It is in the area of Wiltshire Council unitary authority, which is responsible for all significant local government functions.

The parish falls in the Lavingtons and Erlestoke electoral ward. This ward starts in the south at West Lavington and stretches north to Worton. The total population of the parish taken at the 2011 census was 5,857.[4]

The village has a co-op supermarket, a pharmacist, a butcher, a post office, a florist, a hairdresser, a pub, a café and other small businesses. There is also a nursing and residential home.

Buildings

The Anglican Church of St Mary dates from the 13th century and is Grade I listed.[5][6]

The Old House, a 14th-century manor house, is also Grade I listed.[7]

A new manor house was built in 1865 by Ewan Christian for Edward Pleydell-Bouverie, a politician and Ecclesiastical Commissioner. Since 1926 it has been owned by Dauntsey's School.[8]

The Market Lavington Community Hall was built in October 2007 and can accommodate 160 people seated or 250 standing.[9] It hosts regular activities such as short mat bowls, quilting, Tai Chi, yoga, Women's Institute, art, table tennis, a community choir and ballroom dancing.[10]

The Old School has been converted into community space for hire and hosts clubs such as Girl Guides and a play group.[11]

Market Lavington Museum is sited in the old Schoolmaster’s Cottage at the back of the churchyard. It is open Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday and Bank Holiday afternoons from 2.30 to 4.30 pm between 1 May and 30 October.[12]

Schools

Lavington School is a secondary school with a sixth form. The village also has a primary school, St Barnabas.

The village is less than two miles from Dauntsey's School, an independent secondary school in West Lavington.

Railway

The Stert and Westbury Railway, part of the route from London to Taunton, was built through the parish by the Great Western Railway in 1900. At the same time a station named Lavington was built a short distance outside Market Lavington parish, north of Littleton Panell where the line crosses the A360. It was closed in 1967 and no local stations remain; the nearest stations are Pewsey and Westbury.

Further reading

  • Crittall, Elizabeth (ed.); Baggs, A. P.; Crowley, D. A.; Pugh, Ralph B.; Stevenson, Janet H.; Tomlinson, Margaret (1975). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 10: Swanborough hundred; the borough of Devizes.
  • "Victoria County History - Wiltshire - Vol 10, pp82-106 - Parishes: Market Lavington". British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus (1975). Cherry, Bridget, ed. The Buildings of England: Wiltshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 0 14 071026 4.

References

  1. ↑ "Wiltshire Community History - Census". Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Market Lavington". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Parish Council". www.marketlavington.org.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "The Lavingtons and Erlestoke ward 2011". Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  5. ↑ Historic England. "Church of St Mary, Market Lavington (1035835)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "Church of St. Mary, Market Lavington". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  7. ↑ Historic England. "The Old House, Market Lavington (1035851)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Market Lavington Manor". Market Lavington Museum. 9 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  9. ↑ "About The Hall". Market Lavington Village Hall. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  10. ↑ "Regular Users". Market Lavington Village Hall. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  11. ↑ "Facilities". Market Lavington. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  12. ↑ "Market Lavington Museum". Market Lavington Museum. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
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