Latton, Wiltshire

Latton is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Cricklade, on the county border with Gloucestershire.

Latton village lies near Ermin Street, the Roman road which ran southeast–northwest from Silchester to the present-day Cirencester and Gloucester.

[3] Land at Latton and "Esi" was held by Reinbald, as recorded in a 1067 writ of William I.

In the Middle Ages there were settlements at Eisey and Water Eaton, which have both dwindled to farms.

[6] There had been a dependant chapel at Water Eaton, dedicated to St Laurence, from the 12th century or earlier until the 17th.

[14][15] The Co-Operative Wholesale Society had a creamery near Latton from 1935, which employed some 139 people in 1956; it closed in around 1996.

Church of St John the Baptist