The Gauze Brook, a tributary of the Bristol Avon, crosses the parish from southwest to northeast.

A settlement of 35 households at Hunlavintone was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, and at that time the land was held by Ralf de Mortimer.

[5] Hullavington church and manor belonged to the abbey of Saint-Victor-en-Caux (Saint-Victor-l'Abbaye, Seine-Maritime) in the early Middle Ages.

[7][8] Bradfield (north of Hullavington village) and Surrendell (in the west of the modern parish) were recorded in the Domesday Book[9][10] and became medieval hamlets, then declined to single farmsteads.

[7] A pillow mound rabbit warren, some 36 metres in length, survives near Surrendell Farm.

[16] In 1903 the Great Western Railway opened the South Wales Main Line which passes to the north of Hullavington village, and had a station on the road towards Norton.

[19] At one time the church had a plaque commemorating the death at Malmesbury in 1703 of Hannah Twynnoy, believed to be the first person in Britain to have been killed by a tiger.

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