Town & Plain

Market Lavington was granted a charter to run a market in 1252. It still has more amenities than most Wiltshire villages. The main streets all have the houses built close together with the market place central. Look closely and you can see that many of the houses were once shops with bigger windows now reduced in size.

Much of the parish is on Salisbury Plain, in the past producing barley and sheep. After the Enclosure Acts farms were built. They are now all demolished following the area being taken over by the Ministry of Defence in 1911.