The barn at Lime Kiln

There have been many farms up on Salisbury Plain. Those in Market Lavington were taken over as part of the military range in about 1910. Farmers, their families and workers all had to go. There was no...

The Headmaster’s Story

Our blog story today comes from an unlikely magazine. Yes, it is the National Savings News Letter for July 1965 One article in it was by Mr Pickering who was headmaster of Market Lavington School....

Western Emperor

If people have an image of Lavington Station in their mind at all, they probably think of trains hauled by Castle or King class steam locos racing through whilst the more humble, local trains wheezed ...

A news article in 1965

Newspapers always tend to go in for things being a bit sensational. This feature comes from a Wiltshire paper, The Times and Echo for Thursday February 11th 1965. Had Market Lavington really slippe...

Lavington Station entrance

A railway station could be seen as an interface between the road network and the rail. Even in times long past a station required a frontage that could accommodate road vehicles and a building from wh...