Place:Market Lavington, Wiltshire, England

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Market Lavington is a civil parish and large village with a population of about 2,200 on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, 5 miles (8.0 km) south of the market town of Devizes. Because the parish to the west is West Lavington, Market Lavington is sometimes called East Lavington. The parish includes the hamlets of Lavington Sands and Fiddington Sands.

Market Lavington was formerly considered to be a town and received a Royal Charter to hold a weekly market in the year 1254. The Anglican Church of St Mary dates from the 13th century and is Grade I listed. The Old House, a 14th-century manor house, is also Grade I listed. A new Manor House was built in 1865 by Ewan Christian for Edward Pleydell-Bouverie, a politician and Ecclesiastical Commissioner. The house is now a private school.

Research Tips

• From this Ancestry page you can browse the Wiltshire parishes which have parish register transcripts online, quite often from very early dates. However, reading the early ones requires skill and patience. Transcriptions should also be in FamilySearch.
• A further collection of online source references will be found on the county page for Wiltshire.