Besides the main village of Bromham, the parish includes six other settlements: St Edith's Marsh, Westbrook, Hawkstreet, Netherstreet, Roughmoor and Chittoe.

[3] In Anglo-Saxon times the manor was held, in the reign of Edward the Confessor, by Earl Harold Godwinson.

Its name, first attested in 1167 as Chetewe, is unusual in England for deriving from Common Brittonic: the first element is agreed to be the word that survives in modern Welsh as coed ("woodland").

The origin of the second part of the name is less certain; twenty-first-century scholarship suggests the ancestor of the Welsh word tew ("thick").

[12] The churchyard has the grave of Irish poet Thomas Moore, who had long resided at Sloperton Cottage, north of Bromham.

Enthusiastic singing by the Methodists could be heard from within the Anglican church after it was built nearby, so in 1882 the chapel was dismantled and rebuilt at Chittoe Heath, not far from the Devizes road (now the A342).

[21] Previously, the hamlet had been a detached part of the parish of Bishops Cannings and villagers had to travel to the church there for marriages and burials, using a trackway called the "Burying Road".

For burials this requirement was relaxed at the end of the 18th century, but weddings were still conducted at Cannings until the new church was brought into use.

[26] It had originally been constructed in the 16th century[27] as the gatehouse of the Cistercian Stanley Abbey, which stood near the eastern edge of the parish, towards Chippenham; the Abbot's Wood that appears as a block of woodland in Andrews' and Dury's Map of Wiltshire, 1773,[5] survives as a narrow wooded strip south of the village.

Nonsuch House, north of Bromham village on the road from Melksham, is from the early 18th century.

[30] For secondary education, Bromham is in the catchment area of Kingsbury Green Academy in Calne.

Children of all ages attended until 1938, when older pupils transferred to Calne; the school became Voluntary controlled in 1948.

On the final Saturday of the two weeks the carnival procession is held, commencing usually at 2.00pm from the Pound Playing Field and winding its way through the village to the Social Centre Playing Field where activities and shows take place throughout the afternoon.

Bands from the local area play from 5.00pm through until 12 midnight and mark the end of the carnival period.