[citation needed] At the time of the English Civil War Latimer belonged to the Earl of Devonshire.

The base consists of local pudding-stones with the names of the 132 men inscribed on an obelisk of granite.

The other memorial to a horse called Villebois; a black charger which Lord Chesham brought back from South Africa.

The church of St Mary Magdelane was rebuilt by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1867.

Latimer was the location used in the Department S episode, "The Pied Piper of Hambledown", first aired on 30 September 1969.