Market Lavington buildings [8]
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Market Lavington buildings [8]
Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 19 May 2020
This block of three shops, numbers 14, 16 and 18 High Street, are 16th or 17th century refaced in the 19th century when the shopfronts were added. Numbers 16 and 18 are one build, number 14 is a separate build. Some original internal joinery remains. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1182710 Market Lavington lies at the foot of the north western scarp slope of Salisbury Plain, about 5 miles south of Devizes. There is evidence of continuous occupation of the village since the Iron Age and maybe, near continuous occupation since late Neolithic times. The village developed around the cross roads of an east-west road (now the B3098) and a north-south road which ran from Devizes to Salisbury – later closed. Once considered a town, a market charter was granted in 1254.
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