Fyfield is a village

Village

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 in the English

England

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 county of Wiltshire

Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...

.

Local government

Fyfield forms part of the civil parish of Fyfield and West Overton

Fyfield and West Overton

Fyfield and West Overton is a civil parish comprising the adjacent villages of Fyfield, Lockeridge and West Overton, in the English county of Wiltshire.-Local government:Fyfield and West Overton is a civil parish with an elected parish council...

, which has an elected parish council. It also falls within the area of Wiltshire Council

Wiltshire Council

Wiltshire Council is the unitary authority for most of the county of Wiltshire, in the West of England, the successor authority to Wiltshire County Council and to four districts—Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury, and West Wiltshire—all of which had been created in 1973 and were...

, which is responsible for all significant local government functions.

The ONS website and the Explorer map (see 'Sources', below) refer to separate civil parishes for Fyfield and West Overton. However, the website of the former Kennet District Council referred to the two as a single civil parish.

Location

Position:

Nearby towns and cities: Marlborough, Swindon

Swindon

Swindon is a large town within the borough of Swindon and ceremonial county of Wiltshire, in South West England. It is midway between Bristol, west and Reading, east. London is east...

, Devizes

Devizes

Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The town is about southeast of Chippenham and about east of Trowbridge.Devizes serves as a centre for banks, solicitors and shops, with a large open market place where a market is held once a week...

Nearby villages: West Overton

West Overton

-Local government:West Overton forms part of the civil parish of Fyfield and West Overton, which has an elected parish council. It also falls within the area of Wiltshire Council. Both councils are responsible for different aspects of local government....

, Lockeridge

Lockeridge

Lockeridge is a village in Wiltshire, England. It lies at the edge of the West Woods in the Kennet Valley, west of Marlborough, east of Avebury and south of Swindon....

See also

• Fyfield Down
  Fyfield Down
  Fyfield Down is part of the Marlborough Downs, about north of the village of Fyfield, Wiltshire.The down has the best assemblage of sarsen stones in England. The stones are known here as the Grey Wethers, for their likeness to sheep when seen from a distance...
  
  
• Fifield
• Fifield Bavant
  Fifield Bavant
  Fifield Bavant /'fʌɪfiːld 'bavənt/ is a very small village and former civil parish in Wiltshire, England, seven miles south west of Wilton, midway between Ebbesbourne Wake and Broad Chalke....
  
  
• List of places in Wiltshire

Sources

• Wiltshire County Council Website page on Fyfield, retrieved 22:00 Nov 8, 2004 (UTC).
• Kennet District Council Website page on Fyfield and West Overton Parish, retrieved 21:40 Nov 8, 2004 (UTC).
• Office of National Statistics (ONS) - List of English parishes, retrieved 14:00 Oct 3, 2004 (UTC).
• Map 'Explorer 157', published by the Ordnance Survey
  Ordnance Survey
  Ordnance Survey , an executive agency and non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom, is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, producing maps of Great Britain , and one of the world's largest producers of maps.The name reflects its creation together with...
  
  , ISBN 0-319-21782-5, revised 1997.