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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...
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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...
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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...