Gingerbread Cottage - Holiday home in Wiltshire, UK

c/o Sheepfold Cottage, Sherrington, Warminster, Wiltshire, BA12 0SN
Tel/Fax: 01985 850453 (From abroad +44 1985 850453)
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Sherrington Village
Sherrington is a picturesque, quintessentially English country village, in peaceful rural surroundings. It is located in the attractive Wylye valley, not far from the A36. Warminster is 7 miles away. Access to the village is by a quiet road, which is itself off a minor country road. It has 27 houses, many of which are thatched, and a population of 57. The village history goes back to Domesday and beyond and a book about it has been written recently by Lady Rosamund Willoughby. Its 14th century church, which is dedicated to St Cosmas and St Damian, has many interesting features including recently exposed Elizabethan wall texts. Services are held every two weeks. Sherrington was designated a Conservation Area in 1973 and lies within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The cottage is located next to the village pond, (formerly old water-cress beds) fed by some of Sherrington's springs which emerge from the chalk uplands. The pond is home to many ducks and moorhens, and occasionally a pair of swans or geese. Birdlife in the area is prolific. In the autumn 2004 a biodiversity project has improved the habitat and environment for wildlife around the pond, and so attracts a wider range of species as well as enhances village amenity. The river Wylye, which is a clear chalk river with good fishing, flows only 100 yards from the cottage. There is a footbridge with access to the next village of Codford and the old Mill house, and the adjacent ford is used often by horse riders. Nearby, a Norman Motte and Baillie earthworks and moat can be seen, and there are several pre historic barrows (burial grounds) in the fields surrounding the village. To complete the idyllic rural scene, a small private flock of rare Jacob's sheep graze near the church.