others, is part of the Wylye and Till Valley benefice. The parish registers now held in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre cover the years 1674–1924 (christenings), 1674–1980 (marriages), and 1674–1873 (burials). Others At Little Langford, the Church dedicated to St Nicholas of Mira is a 19th-century rebuilding of a 12th-century church; it is Grade II* listed. Baptists built a small redbrick chapel in 1849 at Hanging Langford, which was attended by a total of 125 at three services on Census Sunday in 1851; it was closed in 1960. Education Children of Steeple Langford attend the primary school at Codford (Wylye Valley Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School) and secondary schools further afield. A National School was built in 1861 and continued as a Church of England Aided school from 1954. Due to falling numbers, in 2005 the school merged with the Codford school, with teaching at both sites; the Steeple Langford site closed in 2010. Nature reserves Three lakes created by gravel workings alongside the River Wylye have been turned into a wildlife reserve called the Langford Lakes Nature Reserve, under the ownership of the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. The reserve has an area of fifty acres, and species include mallard, gadwall, tufted duck, common pochard, northern shoveller, Eurasian wigeon, kingfisher, great crested grebe, common tern, osprey, brown trout, greyling, otters, and water voles. Steeple Langford Down is a Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, as an area of chalk grassland. Notable people Arthur Collier (1680–1732), philosopher: born at the rectory, himself rector from 1704 until his death Charles Chubb, (1851–1924), ornithologist General Sir John Whiteley (1896–1970), British Army general, retired to Steeple Langford References External links The Langford Villages – community website Villages in Wiltshire Civil parishes in Wiltshire