Place:Fifield Bavant, Wiltshire, England

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NameFifield Bavant
Alt namesFifield-Bavantsource: hyphenated
TypeParish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates51.025°N 1.977°W
Located inWiltshire, England
See alsoChalk Hundred, Wiltshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Bower Chalke, Wiltshire, Englandparish to which it lost 25% of its area in 1885
Ebbesbourne Wake, Wiltshire, Englandparish to which the remainder of its area was merged in 1894
Salisbury District, Wiltshire, Englanddistrict municipality 1974-2009
Wiltshire District, Wiltshire, Englandunitary authority 2009--
source: Family History Library Catalog
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Fifield Bavant is a small village and former civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Wilton, midway between Ebbesbourne Wake and Broad Chalke on the north bank of the River Ebble.

The small Church of England parish church, begun in the 13th century, is dedicated to Saint Martin and is a Grade II* listed building.

The population is now about 20, although it was 49 in 1831.

Fifield Bavant was a separate civil parish for eight centuries. In 1885, it lost its southern area of some 283 acres to Bower Chalke, and in 1894 the parish was extinguished, when the remaining 870 acres of the northern part were annexed to Ebbesbourne Wake. In 1923 the separate ecclesiastical parish also came to an end, when the benefice of St Martin's was united with that of St John the Baptist in Ebbesbourne.

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