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Chalk downland north of Heytesbury village has prehistoric earthworks including long barrows and round barrows. Strip lynchets are visible north and east of Cotley Hill.
The parish lies between the Iron Age hillforts of Scratchbury Camp and Knook Castle.
A Romano-British settlement has been identified on Tytherington Hill, in the far south of the parish. Chapperton Down, west of Imber, has evidence of settlement and field systems from the same period and earlier.
The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded a small settlement of eight households at Hestrebe, with a church. The hundred of Heytesbury, south and east of Warminster, comprised seventeen places.
The village sits on the banks of the River Wylye with magnificent views over the downs. The village has some delightful almshouses belonging to the Hospital of St John and St Katherine and restored in their 17th century style. The church is mostly 12th, 13th and 15th century.
The present Church of St Peter and St Paul dates from the 13th century. A large cruciform style church with a central tower, there is a fine stone screen to the north transept with fan vaulting on both sides. Grade I listed
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