Market Lavington

What is it like to live in Market Lavington?

Homes sold for a typical £265,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 5.4% on the 12 months before. Ofcom reports on 54 postcodes here; at none of them can every home and business get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts no home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1 of its 54 postcodes. It has 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Melksham, 15.4 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Market Lavington?

Homes in Market Lavington sold for a typical £265,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 25 sales, down 5.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

• Detached 3 sales, too few to price
• Semi-detached £297,500 13 sales
• Terraced £250,000 7 sales
• Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole SN10 district, Market Lavington's main postcode district: a typical £315,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Market Lavington: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Market Lavington?

None of the 54 postcodes now in use in Market Lavington came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 26 homes sold in Market Lavington were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SN10 district, 4%.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Market Lavington?

Ofcom reports on 54 of the 54 postcodes in Market Lavington. At none of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Market Lavington at risk of flooding?

1 of the 54 postcodes in Market Lavington has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts none of the homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Market Lavington?

There is no primary school at the postcodes in Market Lavington; these are the nearest to its middle. The secondary schools are at its postcodes. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Market Lavington?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Market Lavington is Melksham Rail Station, 15.4 km away in a straight line.

• Melksham Rail Station Railway station 15.4 kmDrive
• Westbury (Wilts) Rail Station Railway station 15.5 kmDrive
• Pewsey Rail Station Railway station 15.7 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Market Lavington?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Market Lavington. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Market Lavington Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01380 812500 300 mWalk

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Market Lavington safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 145 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Market Lavington over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: other theft 1, theft from the person 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Market Lavington?

Council

Wiltshire

Parliamentary constituency

Melksham and Devizes

Police force area

Wiltshire

Region

South West

Country

England

MP

Brian Mathew (Liberal Democrat)

All 54 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources