a short distance outside Market Lavington parish, north of Littleton Panell where the line crosses the A360. It was closed in 1967 and no local stations remain; the nearest stations are Pewsey and Westbury. Status and amenities Market Lavington was formerly considered to be a town and received a Royal Charter to hold a weekly market in the year 1254. The civil parish elects a parish council. It is in the area of Wiltshire Council unitary authority, which is responsible for all significant local government functions. The parish falls in the Lavingtons and Erlestoke electoral ward. This ward starts in the south at West Lavington and stretches north to Worton. The total population of the parish taken at the 2011 census was 5,857. The village has a co-op supermarket, a pharmacist, a butcher, a post office, a florist, a hairdresser, a pub, a café and other small businesses. There is also a nursing and residential home. Parish church The parish church of St Mary, in the west of the village, is from the late 13th century. There is evidence of an earlier building in fragments of 12th-century stonework remounted as a cornice in the south porch, and other fragments elsewhere in the church. In the 14th century the porch was added and the aisles widened; the tower was completed in the 15th. The six bells in the tower were recast in 1876. During restoration by Ewan Christian in 1864, the chancel arch, the nave and parts of the aisle walls were rebuilt, and buttresses were added to the south aisle. Further restoration in 1910 added the organ chamber and choir vestry, and the east wall was rebuilt. There is a 14th-century piscina. Monuments include a marble carving of a mourning woman by John Flaxman, a memorial to Thomas Sainsbury (died 1795). The building was recorded as Grade I listed in 1962. The tithing of Easterton became a separate parish with its own church in 1874. The benefices of Market Lavington and Easterton were united in 1962. Today the church is part of the Lavingtons, Cheverells & Easterton benefice, a group of five churches. A chapel at Gore was in existence by 1322. Around 1550 the chapel was still standing but unused, and it was later demolished. Other buildings The Old House, a 14th-century manor house, is Grade I listed. Built of roughcast stone with some brick, it contains the structure