Lacock, Wiltshire - view of village - nice Judges postcard c.1930s

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• Picture / Image:  Lacock [Wiltshire] (this is still an unspoilt village owned almost entirely by the National Trust)
• Publisher: Judges of Hastings No. 17405
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Lacock is a village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) south of the town of Chippenham. The village is owned almost in its entirety by the National Trust and attracts many visitors by virtue of its unspoiled appearance.

The parish includes Bowden Hill, a small village 1 mile (1.6 km) to the east of Lacock, and the hamlets of Bewley Common, Notton and Reybridge. The Chippenham–Melksham section of the A350 primary route crosses the parish from north to south, as does the River Avon.

A scarecrow festival is held annually in Lacock and is popular with visitors from the local area. All funds raised are donated to Lacock Primary School.^[2]

Lacock is mentioned in the Domesday Book, with a population of 160–190; with two mills and a vineyard. Lacock Abbeywas founded on the manorial lands by Ela, Countess of Salisbury and established in 1232; and the village – with the manor – formed its endowment to "God and St Mary". Lacock was granted a market and developed a thriving woollen industry during the Middle Ages. Reybridge, and a packhorse ford, remained the only crossing points of the River Avonuntil the 18th century.^[3]

At the dissolution, the Abbey and estate, including the village, were sold to William Sharington, later passing into the Talbot family by marriage.^[4] Lacock estate was home to photography pioneer Henry Fox Talbot from 1800 to 1877.

In 1916 Henry Fox Talbot's son Charles bequeathed the Lacock estate to his niece, Matilda Gilchrist-Clark, who took the name of Talbot. The estate – comprising 284 acres (1.15 km²), the Abbey and the village – was given to the National Trust in 1944 by Matilda Talbot.^[4] Lacock has three public houses and a number of shops in its High Street including a grocery store, a bakery, gift shops and a National Trust shop.

Most of the surviving houses in the village are 18th century or earlier in construction. Lacock Abbey, the 14th-century St Cyriac's Church and a 14th-century tithe barn^[5] are Grade I listed. Elsewhere in the parish, the country houses at Bewley Court (14th century, restored 1920)^[6] and Bowden Park (1796)^[7] are also Grade I listed.

There are four Grade II* listed structures: The Sign of the Angel (late 15th-century house, now an inn);^[8] a village cross (late medieval, re-erected outside the school in the late 19th century);^[9] a pair of bridges carrying the Bowden Hill road over the Avon (late medieval, 17th and 19th century);^[10] and a 16th-century conduit house, part of the abbey's water supply, opposite Bowden Hill church.^[11] Next to the tithe barn is a small lock-up from the late 18th century.^[12]

Lackham House, in the north of the parish overlooking the Avon, was built in 1791–6 for James Montagu, naval officer. It is a three-storey country house in Palladian style.^[13]

The village has been used as a film and television location, notably for the 1995 BBC production of Pride and Prejudice and the 2007 BBC production of Cranford. It also made brief appearances in the Harry Potter films Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and in the spin-off film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. In the spring of 2012, it was a filming location for the fantasy adventure film Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box. In 2015 it was used for a series of Downton Abbey episodes, and in late 2018 for scenes from the Downton Abbey film to be released in September 2019.^[16]