Luckington is a village and civil parish in the southern Cotswolds, in north-west Wiltshire, England, about 6+1⁄2 miles (10 km) west of Malmesbury.
The parish is on the county border with Gloucestershire and includes the village of Alderton and the hamlet of Brook End.
The Cotswolds are designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) which means it is recognised as containing some of Britain's finest countryside.
Badminton House is just across the county border, about 1+3⁄4 miles (2.8 km) southwest of Luckington village.
The 17th-century writer John Aubrey was probably referring to one of these springs when he wrote: "In this village is a fine spring called Hancock's-well… It cures the itch and Scabbe; it hath done much good to the eies," and again the editor Jackson adds: "Hancock's well is still resorted to for the cure of sick dogs, bad legs and the like".
Evidence of Neolithic settlement includes Giant's Cave, a chambered long barrow in the west of the parish.
[6] A school was built in Alderton at Joseph Neeld's expense in 1844, some materials coming from the renovation of St Giles' church.
[12] A Primitive Methodist chapel was built in Luckington in 1903 in "tin tabernacle" style, and today is part of the North Wiltshire circuit.
[20] Both the interiors and exterior were used to represent Longbourn, the Bennet family home, in the BBC's 1995 TV series Pride and Prejudice.
[21][22] In addition to the seven-bedroom house with six reception rooms, the property also includes a stable and outbuildings, five cottages and farm buildings.
[30] Luckington has a community school[31] with fewer than fifty pupils taught by three full-time teachers and two teaching assistants.
The Old Royal Ship Inn[33] is a popular village pub with walkers and cyclists, and the Beaufort Hunt[34] meets there occasionally.