For centuries, the Wylye Valley was an area of sheep farming and barley production, where the sheep were used to dung the land.
Most of today’s settlement lies along the High Street, the old main road running slightly south-eastwards from Codford St Peter to the bridge over
The Old Manor House, on the High Street in Codford St Peter, is typical of stone-built West Wiltshire farmhouses of the late 16th and early 17th ce
The George Inn, first recorded in 1541, had become the stopping place for the Rocket stagecoach before 1800, and was described in 1787 as a stone a
Codford was sited on an ancient road running on the north side of the river Wylye, from Warminster in the west to Wilton in the east.
Codford had no country seat until the early 19th century when Ashton Gifford House, set in a small ornamental park, took that role.
Discovered built into the wall above the chancel arch of St Peter’s church in 1864, this Anglo-Saxon sculpture now stands against the north chancel
Codford Circle, with its bank and ditch, viewed from the air looking south, with Punch Bowl Bottom to the right.
The military cemetery in Codford St Mary, the second largest of its kind in the UK, lies in a peaceful spot by the parish church and contains the g
Codford station, with the stationmaster’s lodge nearby, opened in 1856 at the far south-west corner of the parish, and was linked to the main road