The village lies about 1.8 miles (3 km) north of the town of Warminster and about the same distance south of Westbury.

Upton Cow Down rises above the village to the north-east, on the western edge of Salisbury Plain.

A church school was built in 1839, enlarged in 1871, and closed in 1925 owing to falling pupil numbers.

[7] Notable rectors include Thomas Owen, translator of works on agriculture, from 1779 until his death in 1812.

[9] A group ministry was established in 1974 to cover parishes centred on St Denys', Warminster;[10] this continues today as the River Were benefice.

Julian Orbach writes that the house has a "remarkably intact two-bay early-14th-century hall" between later wings.

[7] The gabled side wings and the porch were probably built or rebuilt by the Seaman family, tenants in the early 17th century.

[17] While undertaking restoration of the church he wished to move music-making from the west end to the chancel, but there was neither money nor space for a large organ.

[20] After Hall's early death in 1862,[2] many Scudamore organs were built by the leading London makers, Henry Willis & Sons.