From the goods yard

Lavington had a railway station. It was by the bridge which the A360 road uses to get under the line. The road has traffic lights to control the road traffic under that bridge. A station was more tha...

Lavington Station in the 30s

It’s a regular question at the museum. ‘Where was Lavington Station?’ people ask. Nothing of the actual station remains but there are tell-tale signs. One is that a building which looks like a...

Lavington – What’s in a name?

We have some ideas about the origins of the word Lavington as applied to both Market and West Lavington in Wiltshire. It may have been the ‘tun’ or farmstead owned by a chap called Laffa and, over...