Great Somerford is a village and civil parish within Dauntsey Vale, Wiltshire, England,[2] near the south bank of the river Avon.

[5] The mound of a motte castle, 40 metres in diameter and probably from the 12th century, stands immediately east of the church.

[4][8] The Free Gardens continue in use; the Seagry Heath site reverted to private ownership.

[9] The 200th anniversary in 2009 was marked by an edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme, Gardeners' Question Time.

[17] Primitive Methodists were meeting at Startley by 1843, and in 1850–51 an average congregation of 90 attended Sunday services.

The chapel closed in 1985 and is now a private house; the small cemetery on the opposite side of the road remains.

[18][19] At Great Somerford, Methodists bought the red brick village reading room in 1882 for use as a chapel.

(The reading room had been built in 1872 at the expense of Wiltshire MP Walter Powell and was sold following his death.

It is in the area of Wiltshire Council, a unitary authority, which is responsible for most significant local government functions.

[25] In 1963 the Environment Agency constructed a river level measuring station consisting of one of the earliest compound crump weirs in Britain.

The second is on the edge of a medium-sized field next to the Avon; there has been no damage to this pillbox, though in heavy rain it tends to flood.