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All Saints Road, DEVIZES, SN10 4LT

Parsonage House, formerly The Parsonage is in All Saints Road opposite the church. Built in the mid 18th century and extended in the 19th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1035893 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. The Dauntsey family owned land in the parish from at least 1474 and in 1542 William Dauntsey's bequest founded a school and almshouses.

All Saints Road skirts the southern edge of All Saints Church, out of view to the left, on its way the A360 Devizes to Salisbury road.

The road takes its name from the nearby church, All Saints, the churchyard of which is just visible at the left. West Lavington is a typical mid-Wiltshire linear village strung out as it is either side of a main road, in this case the A360 Devizes to Salisbury road.

It always saddens me to see 'The Old' in the title of a house, because it's testament to yet another rural service that has been lost to the community. This one dates from the late 17th or early 18th C and is Grade II listed with English Heritage Building ID: 312193.

The Old Post Office at number 20 Church Street is late a 17th or early 18th century build in brick with a thatched roof and a later lean-to extension. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1035899 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. 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 church shows work of all periods from Transitional-Norman onwards. The Shell Guide to Wiltshire says: “The simple unadorned interior is surprisingly impressive, although the chancel is very short for so large a nave. There are several beautifully designed table-tombs in the churchyard, forming a good group."

An interesting church with a somewhat complicated story according to Pevsner. Dating back to the 12th Century it has been added to, replaced and restored ever since. Grade I Listed Building, passed by on the Wessex Ridgeway long distance footpath. A storm was rumbling around to the east over Salisbury Plain.