[1] Within this small village are the notable ruins of Farleigh Hungerford Castle, which played a significant part in the English Civil War.

Then Reginald de Montfort sold the estate to one of Edward III’s soldiers whose family held it only for about a quarter of a century.

In the early 15th century, his son, Sir Walter Hungerford, enlarged the castle by adding the outer court that enclosed the parish church, St Leonard's, which he used as his chapel.

[6] A later Sir Edward Hungerford (1632–1711), who had been MP for Chippenham during Richard Cromwell's brief reign,[7] entertained Charles II of England at Farleigh in about 1675.

[9] Enclosed by a curtain wall with a cylindrical tower at each corner, the squarish inner bailey contained a selection of domestic buildings.

The church, which is a grade II* listed building, has a perpendicular style West Tower in 3 stages, with a pair of stone gargoyles on each face.