Bratton, Wiltshire

Bratton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire, about 2.5mi east of Westbury. The village lies under the northern slope of Salisbury Plain, on the B3098 Westbury – Market Lavington road.HistoryThe massive earthworks of the Iron Age hill fort known as Bratton Castle (or Bratton Camp) are within the parish.Bratton was a tithing of the ancient parish of Westbury until 1894, when it became a separate civil parish.The Stert and Westbury Railway was built across the parish in 1900. The local station was in the adjacent parish of Edington and was called Edington & Bratton; the station closed to passengers in 1952 and to goods in 1963, but the line remains open as part of the Reading to Taunton Line.Religious sitesThe Church of England parish church of St James has 14th-century origins and may be on the site of an earlier church. It was rebuilt in the 15th century; the chancel was rebuilt in 1854 by G.G. Scott, with further restoration by T.H. Wyatt in 1860. The church is Grade II* listed.