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...

A clock by Ackrill

A Timely Disagreement This post is about a clock. The clock is in New South Wales in Australia but the curator at Market Lavington Museum was recently contacted about it. It has become a topic for di...