West Lavington, Wiltshire

West Lavington, Wiltshire

West Lavington [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/452274] is a village in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom.

Location

West Lavington is located on the A360 road between Devizes and Salisbury in Wiltshire, five miles south of Devizes. The village was originally known as Bishops' Lavington.

Amenities

Dauntsey's School is situated in the village.

The village and parish church is All Saints church [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/65337] .

One local pub is the Bridge Inn [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/425389] the village also has The Stage Post and The Churchill. West Lavington also has a village shop and a doctors surgery.

Littleton Panell is a contiguous hamlet in the parish of West Lavington. Its extent is disputed but its centre is north of the A360 B4038 crossroads and south of the old railway station for the Great Western Railway. The former manor house, a'Beckett's, is now offices and its grounds were for many years a fruit farm more recently they have been planted as a vineyard and an orchard.

External links

* [http://www.thelavingtons.info The Lavingtons Online]
* [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getcom.php?id=237 Wiltshire County Council thumbnail history and info]
* [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WIL/WestLavington/index.htm Genuki history / info and links]


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