Bemerton, once a rural hamlet and later a civil parish to the west of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, is now a suburb of that city.

Herbert's only prose work, A Priest to the Temple (usually known as The Country Parson), offers practical advice to rural clergy.

[10] The church of St Michael and All Angels, built in yellow brick with an apsidal chancel, was consecrated in 1957.

[14] After renovation, the building was reopened in 2016 as a community centre and events venue, and is also used by the nearby St John primary school.

[25] Bemerton Village is an inner-city area west of Fisherton and south of Wilton Road, with the River Nadder forming its southern boundary.

[26] Bemerton Heath is a council estate on the northwestern fringe of Salisbury, north of Wilton Road and southwest of the A360.

The Salisbury and South Wiltshire Sports Club ground at Skew Bridge, Lower Bemerton, has been a cricket venue since 1854.

Poet George Herbert was rector of Fugglestone with Bemerton from 1630 until his death in 1633, and is buried at St Andrew's.

William Coxe (1748–1828) was rector of Fugglestone with Bemerton from 1788 until his death in 1828; he wrote travel books, biographies of Sir Robert Walpole and others, and a history of the county of Montgomery.

Naval officer John Fulford (1809–1888) took up residence at Riversfield House, Lower Road in later life.

In 1859 he had been captain of HMS Ganges, alongside Admiral Baynes, at the confrontation called the Pig War – a dispute with the United States over the position of the border among the San Juan Islands near Vancouver.

[32] William Hurlstone (1876–1906), musical prodigy and composer, moved to Bemerton from West Brompton with his family in 1883 and became a chorister in the local church.

The vicar was so impressed with him that he invited Hubert Parry and George Grove from the Royal College of Music to hear him in Salisbury.