West Lavington houses [13]
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Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 11 Sep 2019
Dauntsey House built in 1861 on the site of the former school. The building has had a number of uses a medical centre, a dance school, a private school and, since 1960, a home for the elderly. The Dauntsey family owned land in the parish from at least 1474 and in 1542 William Dauntsey's bequest founded a school and almshouses. The school moved to new premises in 1895 and became Dauntsey's Agricultural school. The word agricultural was dropped when the name changed in 1923 and it is now a thriving, modern, co-educational school West Lavington, along with Littleton Panell, form a nearly continuous line of ribbon development along the A360 Devizes to Salisbury road on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain. There is evidence of occupation in this area from late Neolithic or early Bronze Age times.