The large Neolithic causewayed enclosure on Windmill Hill, in the southeast towards Avebury, is partly in the parish.

[3] Domesday Book in 1086 recorded a settlement at Wintreborne with 32 households, and land held by Glastonbury Abbey.

After the dissolution of Glastonbury, the manor was granted to Edward Seymour, later Duke of Somerset, who soon sold it.

[5] It falls within the area of the Wiltshire Council, a unitary authority which is responsible for all significant local government functions.

[8] It became a Church of England primary school which closed in 1971; local children go to Broad Hinton or Lockeridge.