[1] The village is between Chilmark and Dinton on the B3089 Hindon to Barford St Martin road, in the valley of a stream which rises just to the north and flows south through Teffont Evias to join the Nadder.

[4] A hillfort of uncertain age known as Wick Ball Camp stands on a hilltop in the east of the parish, straddling the boundary with Dinton.

As Shaftesbury Abbey owned the manor of Teffont Magna by the time of the Norman Conquest, the charters may refer to parts of it.

There is no mention of Teffont Magna in the Domesday Book, where it may be included under Dinton, another of the Abbey's manors.

[1] Fitz House, the largest in the village, was built in the mid-17th century in dressed limestone and with mullioned windows; a left wing was added in 1700 and converted from a wool store to living accommodation in the 1920s.

[8] According to Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–1872): TEFFONT-MAGNA, a parish in Tisbury district, Wilts; 1¾ mile NW of Dinton r. station.

[1] After it was closed in 1936, children attended schools in Dinton or Wilton; the building remains in use as the village hall.

The cylindrical font is from the 12th century, and set into a wall is a fragment of a Saxon cross with fine carving.

[18] In 1979 the benefice became part of a group ministry,[19] today called the Nadder Valley team and covering fourteen parishes with sixteen churches.

[22] On 25 October 1854, in the Crimean War, Charles Wiltshire Short of Teffont Magna took part in the Charge of the Light Brigade.

[23] In 1856 Harry Fidler was born here to a local farmer, but he took to painting and returned to have a studio here at an old Methodist Church.

[24] The explorer Bill Kennedy Shaw lived in the village in the 1930s and 1940s, at his parents' house, King's Orchard.