IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Beechwood, DEVIZES, SN10 4DJ

Lower Grove Farm roundabout, from Canada Rise.

'This short path exits at Lower Grove Farm roundabout ....' See http://www.marketlavington.org.uk/Walks%204.html for more details.

This 5 bay timber framed barn is dated 1820. Listed, for group value, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1390687 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.

The Old House, number 11 Parsonage Lane, is the only known aisled hall in the county. A manor house built in the 14th century, altered in the 16th century remodelled in the late 17th or early 18th century and restored in 1875. The house contains an early medieval double aisled open hall structure with contemporary cross wing of 2 bays within a rectangular plan of stone walls. Listed, grade I, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1035851 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.

Newer graves in this area.

'You will find a path to your left which follows the stream.' See http://www.marketlavington.org.uk/Walks%204.html for more details.

A very frosty morning in Market Lavington with a hoar frost on all surfaces making it look like a black and white world

Looking West along the lower footpath through Canada, formerly Beech Wood.

Racquets Court, number 10 Parsonage Lane, was previously known as Fives Court. Built in the early 18th century as an outbuilding to the demolished Old Parsonage. Extended as a racquets court in the 1850s, raised to two storeys circa 1860, Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1364607 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.

The tower dates from the 15th century.