subsequently developed, largely for housing, as the Swindon suburbs of Shaw, Middleleaze, Nine Elms, Hillmead, Roughmoor, Peatmoor and Common Platt. Parish church There was probably a church at Lydiard Millicent in the late 11th century. The present parish church is a rebuilding from the 14th century; the nave is from that period and was re-roofed in the 15th or 16th. The chancel was largely rebuilt in 1871 and the west vestry (which now houses the organ) was created in 1924. The font, a limestone bowl decorated with intersecting arcades, is from the 12th century. The tower has six bells, three of them cast by the elder Abraham Rudhall in 1712. The east window, installed in 1963, is by M. E. Aldrich Rope. The building was designated as Grade II* listed in 1955. The churchyard cross has a medieval limestone shaft; in the 19th century it was provided with a base and a new head. The benefice was united with Lydiard Tregoze in 1956; the incumbent lived at Lydiard Millicent. The two parishes were united in 1981 and following the 1989 building of a church in the Swindon suburb of Shaw, the parish was renamed West Swindon and the Lydiards in 1996. Further reorganisation in 2017 separated the Lydiards and created the benefice of North West Swindon and Lydiard Millicent where All Saints' is the sole church. The parish registers kept in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre cover the years 1579–1968 (baptisms), 1580–1992 (marriages), and 1580–1988 (burials). A substantial rectory house was built southwest of the church in 1855–7, replacing an earlier house. Northern European in style, with rock-faced limestone walls dressed with Bath stone, English Heritage describe it as "a fine example of a mid C19 rectory of substance". The house was sold after a smaller house was built nearby in 1951–2. Amenities The village school continues as Lydiard Millicent C of E VC Primary School. There is a parish hall (1965), a recreation field with changing rooms (2002), and a pub, the Sun Inn. See also Samuel Wilson Warneford – held the advowson of the rectory, 1809–1855 References External links Lydiard Millicent Parish Council Further reading David Percy Harrison, The story of the church and parish of Lydiard Millicent (1936) Manor of Lydiard Millicent: court rolls, 1430-1567 (MS), in archives of Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre Villages in Wiltshire Civil parishes in Wiltshire