Teffont Magna | |
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Teffont Magna shown within Wiltshire | |
OS grid reference | ST988324 |
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Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Salisbury |
Postcode district | SP3 |
Police | Wiltshire |
Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
Ambulance | South Western |
EU Parliament | South West England |
UK Parliament | |
Teffont Magna, also sometimes called Upper Teffont, is a small village in the south of Wiltshire, England.
For most of its history Teffont Magna was a chapelry of neighbouring Dinton, and in 1934 it was combined with the village of Teffont Evias, just to the south, to form a united Teffont.
Teffont Magna lies six miles (10 km) east of Hindon, Wiltshire. The River Nadder rises near the village.
Position: grid reference ST988324
The ancient parish of Teffont Magna formed part of the Warminster hundred of Wiltshire.
According to Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–1872):
TEFFONT-MAGNA, a parish in Tisbury district, Wilts; 1¾ mile NW of Dinton r. station. Post town, Teffont, under Salisbury. Acres, 1,440. Rated property, £1,723. Pop., 292. Houses, 63. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Dinton. The church is tolerable.
A detailed history of the parish was published in 1965 by the Wiltshire Victoria County History (Volume VIII).
An etching of Teffont Magna by John Piper was released in an edition of seventy prints in 1988.