Kilmington, Wiltshire

Kilmington is a village and civil parish in the extreme west of Wiltshire, England, about 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Warminster.

[10] Orbach dates the octagonal pulpit, richly carved in 17th-century style, to 1911 and tentatively ascribes its design to Ponting.

[7] In 1980, Kilmington parish was added to the Upper Stour benefice,[12] alongside the churches at Bourton (Dorset), Stourton and Zeals.

[15] A two-storey porch to the north-west elevation, with arms of the Panter family and ornate bargeboards, is said by Orbach to be Edwardian.

[17] King Alfred's Tower, a Grade I listed 18th-century monument on the Stourhead estate, is just beyond the south-west of the parish.

[18] Francis Potter (1594–1678), a Biblical commentator and experimentalist, and an early Fellow of the Royal Society, followed his father as rector of Kilmington, and is buried in the chancel of the church.

[20] Sir John Keegan (1934–2012), military historian, lecturer, writer and journalist, lived at Kilmington.

Kilmington is about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of the Stourhead estate, where the house and gardens are owned by the National Trust.