The Kennet and Avon Canal and the Reading to Taunton railway line follow the Dun and pass through the village.

About 0.62 miles (1 km) west of Little Bedwyn is Chisbury Camp, an Iron Age hillfort consisting of earthworks which enclose some 14 acres (5.7 ha).

[3] Bedwyn Dyke, an early medieval fortification with similarities to the Wansdyke, stretches some 2.8 km southeast from the hillfort.

His descendants included William Russell (1257–1311), administrator and defender of the Isle of Wight, elected to parliament for one session to represent Great Bedwyn.

It was anciently a part of Great Bedwyn; but was made a separate parish at the beginning of the 15th century.

[1] Surrealist singer and poet Ivor Cutler made reference to the village on his final recorded album, 1998's A Flat Man, via the track "Empty Road at Little Bedwyn".

It was built in the 12th or 13th century, although the tall and narrow nave has the proportions of an earlier Anglo-Saxon church.

[9] All the windows are from the 15th century, as is the south porch; around that time the west tower was rebuilt and the spire added.

[14] St. Michael's parish registers are in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre and cover the years 1722–1857 (baptisms), 1722–1959 (marriages), and 1722–1919 (burials).

Sir Felix Pole, who worked his way up to be general manager of the Great Western Railway in the 1920s, was born at Little Bedwyn and is buried there.

[17] The Spanish-born philanthropist Delfina Entrecanales bought a farm with cottages at Little Bedwyn in the 1970s, and set up a recording studio there.