West Lavington, Wiltshire
| West Lavington | |
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 All Saints' Parish Church |
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 West Lavington
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| West Lavington shown within Wiltshire | |
| Population | 1,502 (in 2011) |
| OS grid reference | SU007530 |
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| 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 | Parish Council |
West Lavington is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, on the north edge of Salisbury Plain. The village is on the A360 road between Devizes and Salisbury, about 5 miles (8 km) south of Devizes. The parish includes the hamlet of Littleton Panell.
The parish was formerly known as Bishops' Lavington, the land having been granted to Roger, Bishop of Salisbury in 1136, and remaining in the hands of the bishopric throughout the Middle Ages.
The Anglican All Saints' Church is Grade I listed. It is from the 12th century or earlier, with many later alterations and additions. It has a 1910 painting entitled "Virgin and Child" by Louis Davis.
Ebenezer Baptist Church was built at Littleton Panell in 1848 and is affiliated to the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches.
Also at Littleton Panell, a Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1900. It closed in 1967 and was bought by the Catholic Church, reopening as St Joseph's in 1971.
Dauntsey's School, an independent day and boarding school, is situated in the village. The nearest state secondary school is Lavington School in Market Lavington.
There is also a primary school, Dauntsey Academy Primary School, built in 1999 at a new site to replace a 19th-century building on the High Street.
The village has a pub, the Churchill Arms. There is a village hall, a shop with a Post Office, and a doctors' surgery.
The Stert and Westbury Railway was built through the parish by the Great Western Railway Company in 1900, providing routes from London to Weymouth or Taunton. At the same time a station named Lavington was built north of Littleton Panell where the line crosses the A360. It was closed in 1967 and no local stations remain; the nearest railway stations are Pewsey and Westbury.
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